Suspend vs. Expelled: What's the Difference?

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

To force or drive out

To cause to stop for a period; interrupt

To discharge from or as if from a receptacle

To halt something temporarily.

To deprive of membership or rights in an organization; force to leave

To hold in an undetermined or undecided state.

Simple past tense and past participle of expel

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

To hang freely; underhang.

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

(obsolete) To make to depend.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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).

Hang freely;

Cause to be held in suspension in a fluid;

Bar temporarily; from school, office, etc.

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

Make inoperative or stop;

As of a prison sentence