Suspend vs. Terminate — What's the Difference?

Temporarily prevent from continuing or being in force or effect

To bring to an end or halt

Hang (something) from somewhere

To occur at or form the end of; conclude or finish

(of solid particles) be dispersed throughout the bulk of a fluid

To discontinue the employment of; dismiss

Prolong (a note of a chord) into a following chord, usually so as to produce a temporary discord.

To murder or assassinate (someone).

To bar for a period from a privilege, office, or position, usually as a punishment

To come to an end; reach a stopping point

To cause to stop for a period; interrupt

To form an end or produce a result. Often used with in

To halt something temporarily.

(transitive) To end something, especially when left in an incomplete state.

To hold in an undetermined or undecided state.

(transitive) To conclude.

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

(transitive) To set or be a limit or boundary to.

To hang freely; underhang.

To kill someone or something.

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

To end the employment contract of an employee; to fire, lay off.

(obsolete) To make to depend.

(intransitive) To end, conclude, or cease; to come to an end.

To debar, or cause to withdraw temporarily, from any privilege, from the execution of an office, from the enjoyment of income, etc.

(intransitive) Of a mode of transport, to end its journey; or, of a railway line, to reach its terminus.

(chemistry) To support in a liquid, as an insoluble powder, by stirring, to facilitate chemical action.

(intransitive) To issue or result.

To remove the value of an unused coupon from an air ticket, typically so as to allow continuation of the next sectors' travel.

Terminated; limited; bounded; ended.

To attach to something above; to hang; as, to suspend a ball by a thread; to suspend a needle by a loadstone.

Having a definite and clear limit or boundary; having a determinate size, shape or magnitude.

To make to depend; as, God hath suspended the promise of eternal life on the condition of obedience and holiness of life.

(mathematics) Expressible in a finite number of terms; (of a decimal) not recurring or infinite.

To cause to cease for a time; to hinder from proceeding; to interrupt; to delay; to stay.

To set a term or limit to; to form the extreme point or side of; to bound; to limit; as, to terminate a surface by a line.

To hold in an undetermined or undecided state; as, to suspend one's judgment or opinion.

To put an end to; to make to cease; as, to terminate an effort, or a controversy.

To debar, or cause to withdraw temporarily, from any privilege, from the execution of an office, from the enjoyment of income, etc.; as, to suspend a student from college; to suspend a member of a club.

Hence, to put the finishing touch to; to bring to completion; to perfect.

To cause to cease for a time from operation or effect; as, to suspend the habeas corpus act; to suspend the rules of a legislative body.

To be limited in space by a point, line, or surface; to stop short; to end; to cease; as, the torrid zone terminates at the tropics.

To support in a liquid, as an insoluble powder, by stirring, to facilitate chemical action.

To come to a limit in time; to end; to close.

To cease from operation or activity; esp., to stop payment, or be unable to meet obligations or engagements (said of a commercial firm or a bank).

Bring to an end or halt;

Hang freely;

Have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical;

Cause to be held in suspension in a fluid;

Be the end of; be the last or concluding part of;

Bar temporarily; from school, office, etc.

Terminate the employment of;

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

Make inoperative or stop;

As of a prison sentence