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

  • (..) -Ridiculous. -Curiously, Lucius, several of them. . . . . .were under the impression that you would curse their family. . . . . .if they did not agree to suspend me in the first place. -How dare you! -Beg your pardon? My sole concern has always been and will always be. . . (..)
    2002 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets