suspend

• vt. 遅延させる、延期させる；中断させる；浮遊させる
• vi.中断する；禁止する

sus-、下、上、-pend、ぶら下がる、語源的にはdepend、pendulumと同じ。

suspend

suspend: [13] To suspend something is etymologically to ‘hang it up’. The word comes via Old French suspendre from Latin suspendere ‘hang up’, a compound verb formed from the prefix sub- ‘up from under’, hence ‘up’, and pendere ‘hang’ (source of English depend, pendent, etc). The metaphorical sense ‘delay’ developed in Latin.
=> depend, pendant, pendulum

suspend (v.)

c. 1300, "to bar or exclude temporarily from some function or privilege;" also "to set aside (a law, etc.), to cause to cease for a time," from Old French sospendre "remove from office; hang up" (12c.), or directly from Latin suspendere "to hang up, kill by hanging; make uncertain, render doubtful; stay, stop, interrupt, set aside temporarily," from assimilated form of sub "up from under" (see sub-) + pendere "cause to hang, weigh" (see pendant). In English, the literal sense of "to cause to hang by a support from above" is recorded from mid-15c. Related: Suspended; suspending.

1. Ministers took the floor to denounce the decision to suspend constitutional rule.

何人かの部長が憲制を一時停止する決定を非難する発言をした。

2.Both sides in the conflict have agreed temporarily to suspend hostilities.

衝突双方は一時停止に同意した。

3. We had no alternative but halt [ suspend ] the project at the time.

当時は馬を降りなければならなかった。

4.He was compelled by illness to suspend his experiment.

彼は病気のために実験を一時中断せざるを得なかった。

5.Balloons suspend easily in the air.

風船は空中に浮かびやすい.