Definitions of suspend:

• verb:   bar temporarily; from school, office, etc.
• verb:   as of a prison sentence
• verb:   make inoperative or stop

  Example: "Suspend payments on the loan"

• verb:   cause to be held in suspension in a fluid

  Example: "Suspend the particles"

• verb:   hang freely

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

• verb:   stop a process or a habit by imposing a freeze on it

  Example: "Suspend the aid to the war-torn country"