suspend

verb9

1. •
   To halt something temporarily.

   • The meeting was suspended for lunch.
2. •
   To discontinue or interrupt a function, task, position, or event.
3. •
   To debar, or cause to withdraw temporarily, from any privilege, from the execution of an office, from the enjoyment of income, etc.

   • 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
4. •
   To hang freely; underhang.

   • The underframe also carries four bonded-rubber mountings, focused upwards and inwards towards the centre of gravity to suspend the body shell. — 1958
5. •
   To hold in an undetermined or undecided state.
6. •
   To bring a solid substance, usually in powder form, into suspension in a liquid.
7. •
   To support in a liquid, as an insoluble powder, by stirring, to facilitate chemical action.
8. •
   To remove the value of an unused coupon from an air ticket, typically so as to allow continuation of the next sectors' travel.
9. •
   (no longer used) To make to depend.

   • God hath all along in the Scripture suspended the promise of eternal life on the condition of obedience and holiness of life. — 1671