Usually means: Temporarily halt, stop, or delay.
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We found 34 dictionaries that define the word suspend:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. suspend: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. suspend: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. suspend: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. suspend: Collins English Dictionary
  5. suspend: Vocabulary.com
  6. Suspend, suspend: Wordnik
  7. suspend: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. suspend: Wiktionary
  9. suspend: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. suspend: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. suspend: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. suspend: Dictionary.com
  13. suspend: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. suspend: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Suspend: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. suspend: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. suspend: Rhymezone
  18. suspend: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. suspend: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. suspend: Free Dictionary
  21. suspend: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. suspend: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  23. suspend: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  2. suspend: Legal dictionary
  3. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. suspend: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. suspend: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  To halt something temporarily.
verb:  To hold in an undetermined or undecided state.
verb:  To discontinue or interrupt a function, task, position, or event.
verb:  To hang freely; underhang.
verb:  To bring a solid substance, usually in powder form, into suspension in a liquid.
verb:  (obsolete) To make to depend.
verb:  To debar, or cause to withdraw temporarily, from any privilege, from the execution of an office, from the enjoyment of income, etc.
verb:  (chemistry) To support in a liquid, as an insoluble powder, by stirring, to facilitate chemical action.
verb:  (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.

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