suspend
To halt something temporarily.
Example
“The meeting was suspended for lunch.”
Other meanings
To hold in an undetermined or undecided state.
To discontinue or interrupt a function, task, position, or event.
“to suspend a thread of execution in a computer program”
Related words
- resuspend
- suspendable
- suspendee
- unsuspend
- suspend one's disbelief
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “suspend” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.