Dismiss vs. Suspend: What's the Difference?

To end the employment or service of; discharge.

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

To direct or allow to leave

To cause to stop for a period; interrupt

To stop considering; rid one's mind of; dispel

To halt something temporarily.

To refuse to accept or recognize; reject

To hold in an undetermined or undecided state.

(Law) To adjudicate (a cause of action) as insufficient to proceed further in court because of some deficiency in law or fact.

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

To eject (a player or coach) for the remainder of a game.

To hang freely; underhang.

To put out (a batter) in cricket.

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

(transitive) To discharge; to end the employment or service of.

(obsolete) To make to depend.

(transitive) To order to leave.

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

(transitive) To dispel; to rid one’s mind of.

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

(transitive) To reject; to refuse to accept.

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

(transitive) To invalidate; to treat as unworthy of serious consideration.

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

(transitive) To send or put away, to discard with disregard, contempt or disdain. (sometimes followed by as).

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

To get a batsman out.

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

To give someone a red card; to send off.

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

To send away; to give leave of departure; to cause or permit to go; to put away.

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.

To discard; to remove or discharge from office, service, or employment; as, the king dismisses his ministers; the matter dismisses his servant.

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 lay aside or reject as unworthy of attentions or regard, as a petition or motion in court.

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

Dismission.

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).

Bar from attention or consideration;

Hang freely;

Cease to consider; put out of judicial consideration;

Cause to be held in suspension in a fluid;

Stop associating with;

Bar temporarily; from school, office, etc.

Terminate the employment of;

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

End one's encounter with somebody by causing or permitting the person to leave;

Make inoperative or stop;

Declare void;

As of a prison sentence