Synonyms for suspend
səˈspɛndsus·pend

WiktionaryRate these synonyms:2.3 / 4 votes

1. suspendverb

   Antonyms:
   resume

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:4.0 / 2 votes

1. suspend

   Synonyms:
   attach, hang, rest, interrupt, delay, intermit, stop, discontinue

   Antonyms:
   detach, drop, remove, continue, expedite, protract, prolong

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:1.0 / 2 votes

1. suspendverb

   hang freely

   "The secret police suspended their victims from the ceiling and beat them"

   Synonyms:
   set aside, debar, freeze

2. suspendverb

   cause to be held in suspension in a fluid

   "suspend the particles"

   Synonyms:
   set aside, debar, freeze

3. suspend, debarverb

   bar temporarily; from school, office, etc.

   Synonyms:
   deflect, head off, bar, obviate, forfend, forefend, avoid, stave off, fend off, freeze, set aside, debar, exclude, ward off, avert

4. freeze, suspendverb

   stop a process or a habit by imposing a freeze on it

   "Suspend the aid to the war-torn country"

   Synonyms:
   block, stop dead, immobilize, set aside, freeze, freeze down, debar, freeze out, immobilise

5. suspend, set asideverb

   make inoperative or stop

   "suspend payments on the loan"

   Synonyms:
   allow, appropriate, reserve, freeze, set aside, debar, earmark

6. suspendverb

   render temporarily ineffective

   "the prison sentence was suspended"

   Synonyms:
   set aside, debar, freeze

Matched Categories

1. • Change
   • Chemistry
   • Defer
   • Expel
   • Hang
   • Interrupt

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. suspendverb

   Synonyms:
   hang, SLING UP

2. suspendverb

   Synonyms:
   make to depend

3. suspendverb

   Synonyms:
   interrupt, intermit, stay, stop, discontinue, arrest, leave off, give over, break off

4. suspendverb

   Synonyms:
   defer, delay, postpone, withhold, lay over, stave off

5. suspendverb

   Synonyms:
   debar (as from an office) temporarily

6. suspendverb

   Synonyms:
   stop payment, become bankrupt, go into bankruptcy

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1. List of paraphrases for "suspend":

   suspension, suspending, discontinue, interrupt, suspends, halt, stop, adjourn, suspended, comment, postpone, waive, stay, cease, dangle

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How to use suspend in a sentence?

1. Marco Rubio:

   All evidence is that they continue to provide these products which enabled these human rights abuses, whenever we receive proof of forced labor, we take action and suspend privileges to sell.

2. Ye Htut:

   Now the NLD suspends one article, what happens after 2020, another party comes in and they suspend another 10 articles or 12 articles? So what will happen to our country?

3. Scott Walker:

   Today, I believe that I am being called to lead by helping to clear the field in this race so that a positive, conservative message can rise to the top of the field. With this in mind, I will suspend my campaign immediately.

4. David Glass:

   The heat had been turned up and the court felt compelled to suspend Jamie since its hands were tied, all of the documentary info, all of the claims by Britney herself, added up to it not being in Britney’s interest to have her father involved — without any finding that Jamie did anything wrong.

5. Manuel Mesa:

   I think he committed the error of going to too many states instead of concentrating on his state. Ted Cruz, to win Texas, was established (in his state), if Marco Rubio doesn't win his state, he has to suspend his campaign.