Meaning & use
Suspending
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Temporarily stopping or postponing something, or hanging an object so it does not touch the ground.
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The school is suspending classes until the storm passes.
Workers were suspending the scaffolding from steel cables along the building's side.
A note on using this word
Suspending can apply equally to physical objects hung above a surface and to abstract processes, like rules or privileges, put on hold.
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