suspend

sus·pend

1. To bar for a period from a privilege, office, or position, usually as a punishment: suspend a student from school.
2. To cause to stop for a period; interrupt: suspended the trial.
3. a. To hold in abeyance; defer: suspend judgment. See Synonyms at defer¹.
   b. To render temporarily ineffective: suspend a jail sentence; suspend all parking regulations.
4. To hang so as to allow free movement: suspended the mobile from the ceiling.
5. To support or keep from falling without apparent attachment, as by buoyancy: suspend oneself in the water.

1. To cease for a period; delay.
2. To fail to make payments or meet obligations.

Origin: Middle English suspenden, from Old French suspendre, from Latin suspendere : sub-, from below; see sub-  + pendere, to hang; see (s)pen- in Indo-European roots.