suspend

Verb

• render temporarily ineffective
  • the prison sentence was suspended
    

• make inoperative or stop
  • suspend payments on the loan
    

• stop a process or a habit by imposing a freeze on it
  • Suspend the aid to the war-torn country
    

• bar temporarily; from school, office, etc.

• cause to be held in suspension in a fluid
  • suspend the particles
    

• hang freely
  • The secret police suspended their victims from the ceiling and beat them
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  set aside , freeze , debar