Suspend vs. Terminate: What's the Difference?

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

To bring to an end or halt

To cause to stop for a period; interrupt

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

To halt something temporarily.

To discontinue the employment of; dismiss

To hold in an undetermined or undecided state.

To murder or assassinate (someone).

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

To come to an end; reach a stopping point

To hang freely; underhang.

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

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

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

(obsolete) To make to depend.

(transitive) To conclude.

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

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

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

To kill someone or something.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(intransitive) To issue or result.

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

Terminated; limited; bounded; ended.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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 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).

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

Hang freely;

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

Cause to be held in suspension in a fluid;

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.

Bar temporarily; from school, office, etc.

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

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

Bring to an end or halt;

Make inoperative or stop;

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

As of a prison sentence

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

Terminate the employment of;