0 present participle of suspend
1 to stop something from being active, either temporarily or permanently:
The ferry service has been suspended for the day because of bad weather.
The country's president has suspended the constitution and assumed total power.
When you go to the theatre, you have to be willing to suspend disbelief (= to act as if you believe that what you are seeing is real or true, although you know that it is not).
I'm suspending judgment (= not forming an opinion) on the book I'm reading until I've finished it.
Mr Young was given a six-month jail sentence, suspended for two years (= if he commits another crime within two years, he will have to go to prison for six months for his original crime).
He was suspended for four games after arguing with the referee.
2 to hang:
Hostilities were suspended during the talks.
When he suspended the constitution and dissolved Congress, he had the imprimatur of the armed forces.
Flights were suspended pending an investigation of the crash.
It was bedlam at the football ground after the match was suspended.
Flights to Paris were suspended.
But in the case of a forced option suspending judgment is practically equivalent to not believing.
I didn't think we were going to make a change in exchange rates without, in effect, suspending dollar convertibility into gold for a while.
Then, ropes suspending rolled mesh sheets with chains were tightly spanned between the tops of these poles.
