SUSPEND

Hang freely

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

Cause to be held in suspension in a fluid

Example: "Suspend the particles"

Bar temporarily; from school, office, etc.

Stop a process or a habit by imposing a freeze on it

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

Make inoperative or stop

Example: "Suspend payments on the loan"

Render temporarily ineffective

Example: "The prison sentence was suspended"