suspend
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
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- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
hang freely
The secret police suspended their victims from the ceiling and beat them
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Sense 2 verb
cause to be held in suspension in a fluid
suspend the particles
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- dangling derivation
- suspension derivation
- chemistry domain topic
Sense 3 verb
bar temporarily; from school, office, etc.
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- temporary removal derivation
- debarment derivation
- punish entails
Sense 4 verb
stop a process or a habit by imposing a freeze on it
Suspend the aid to the war-torn country
Types & categories
- break hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 5 verb
make inoperative or stop
suspend payments on the loan
Types & categories
- change hypernym
Sense 6 verb
render temporarily ineffective
the prison sentence was suspended
Types & categories
- table hypernym
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| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | dangling |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | suspender |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | hang |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | dangle |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | dangling |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | suspension |
| 2 | domain topic | Related & opposite | chemistry |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | change |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | resuspend |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | temporary removal |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | debarment |
| 3 | entails | Related & opposite | punish |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | expel |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | send down |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | freeze |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | abatement |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | abeyance |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | pause |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | break |
| 5 | hypernym | Types & categories | change |
| 6 | hypernym | Types & categories | table |