suspend

Etymology

From Old French sospendre, from Latin suspendere.

verb

1. To halt something temporarily.
   The meeting was suspended for lunch.
   Pack ice, at times mounting to a height of 35 ft., snow, fog, and floating mines all played their part in the disorganisation of railway services, and most of the train ferry services were completely suspended for a month or more; …. 1940 May, “Overseas Railways: Icebound Denmark”, in Railway Magazine, page 302
   Services between Glasgow Queen Street and Edinburgh Waverley via Falkirk High are currently suspended, following a 30-metre breach of the Union Canal that occurred on August 12 after torrential rain and thunderstorms. The thousands of gallons of water that cascaded onto the railway line below washed away track, ballast and overhead line equipment, and undermined embankments along a 300-metre section of Scotland's busiest rail link. August 26 2020, “Network News: Major flood damage severs key Edinburgh-Glasgow rail artery”, in Rail, page 21
2. To hold in an undetermined or undecided state.
3. To discontinue or interrupt a function, task, position, or event.
   to suspend a thread of execution in a computer program
4. To hang freely; underhang.
   to suspend a ball by a thread
5. To bring a solid substance, usually in powder form, into suspension in a liquid.
6. (obsolete) To make to depend.
7. To debar, or cause to withdraw temporarily, from any privilege, from the execution of an office, from the enjoyment of income, etc.
   to suspend a student from college; to suspend a member of a club
   Whether good men should be suspended from the exercise of their ministry , and deprived of their livelyhood for ceremonies which are on all hands acknowledged indifferent. 1633, Robert Sanderson, Reason and Judgement
8. (chemistry) To support in a liquid, as an insoluble powder, by stirring, to facilitate chemical action.
9. (travel, aviation) To remove the value of an unused coupon from an air ticket, typically so as to allow continuation of the next sectors' travel.