Suspending

verb

1. To halt something temporarily.

   "The meeting was suspended for lunch."

2. To hold in an undetermined or undecided state.

   "to suspend one's judgement or one's disbelief"

3. To discontinue or interrupt a function, task, position, or event.

   "to suspend a thread of execution in a computer program"

4. To hang freely; underhang.

   "to suspend a ball by a thread"

5. To bring a solid substance, usually in powder form, into suspension in a liquid.