suspend

英 [s?'spend] 美[s?'sp?nd]
  • vt. 延緩,推遲;使暫停;使懸浮
  • vi. 懸?。唤?/li>

英英釋意


1. hang freely;
"The secret police suspended their victims from the ceiling and beat them"
2. cause to be held in suspension in a fluid;
"suspend the particles"
3. bar temporarily; from school, office, etc.
4. stop a process or a habit by imposing a freeze on it;
"Suspend the aid to the war-torn country"
5. make inoperative or stop;
"suspend payments on the loan"
6. as of a prison sentence