suspend

Definition

  • verb: to force (someone) to leave a job, position, or place for a usually short period of time as a form of punishment
  • verb: to debar temporarily especially from a privilege, office, or function
  • usually used as '(be) suspended'
  • synonyms: intermit, stay, hinder

Examples

  • The plot is ridiculous, but if you can 'suspend (your) disbelief' [=allow yourself to believe that something is true even though it seems impossible], it's an enjoyable movie.

  • a wire 'suspended between' two poles [=hung so that it is attached at each end to a pole]

  • The police officers were 'suspended' without pay for their conduct.

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) - I went through Foster's data. The Kalavirus's key symptom is an uninterrupted increase in body temperature. Nothing, not even medicine, can stop the increase or suspend it. We need to figure out why she's the exception. - What's her temperature? - Still . If it gets any higher, she'll (..)
    2016 TvShow: 12 Monkeys Title: Lullaby Season: 2 Episode 8