Suspend vs. Terminate: What's the Difference?

Suspend and Terminate Definitions
Suspend
To bar for a period from a privilege, office, or position, usually as a punishment
Suspend a student from school.
Terminate
To bring to an end or halt
"His action terminated the most hopeful period of reform in Prussian history" (Gordon A. Craig).
Suspend
To cause to stop for a period; interrupt
Suspended the trial.
Terminate
To occur at or form the end of; conclude or finish
A display of fireworks that terminated the festivities.
Suspend
To halt something temporarily.
The meeting was suspended for lunch.
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Terminate
To discontinue the employment of; dismiss
A company that terminated 300 workers.
Suspend
To hold in an undetermined or undecided state.
Terminate
To murder or assassinate (someone).
Suspend
To discontinue or interrupt a function, task, position, or event.
To suspend a thread of execution in a computer program
Terminate
To come to an end; reach a stopping point
The oil pipeline terminates at a shipping port. The negotiations terminated with a celebration.
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Suspend
To hang freely; underhang.
To suspend a ball by a thread
Terminate
To form an end or produce a result. Often used with in
"The Peloponnesian war ... terminated in the ruin of the Athenian commonwealth" (Alexander Hamilton).
Suspend
To bring a solid substance, usually in powder form, into suspension in a liquid.
Terminate
(transitive) To end something, especially when left in an incomplete state.
To terminate a process before its completion
To terminate an effort, or a controversy
Suspend
(obsolete) To make to depend.
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Terminate
(transitive) To conclude.
Suspend
To debar, or cause to withdraw temporarily, from any privilege, from the execution of an office, from the enjoyment of income, etc.
To suspend a student from college; to suspend a member of a club
Terminate
(transitive) To set or be a limit or boundary to.
To terminate a surface by a line
Suspend
(chemistry) To support in a liquid, as an insoluble powder, by stirring, to facilitate chemical action.
Terminate
To kill someone or something.
The enemy must be terminated by any means possible.
Suspend
To remove the value of an unused coupon from an air ticket, typically so as to allow continuation of the next sectors' travel.
Terminate
To end the employment contract of an employee; to fire, lay off.
Suspend
To attach to something above; to hang; as, to suspend a ball by a thread; to suspend a needle by a loadstone.
Terminate
(intransitive) To end, conclude, or cease; to come to an end.
Suspend
To make to depend; as, God hath suspended the promise of eternal life on the condition of obedience and holiness of life.
Terminate
(intransitive) Of a mode of transport, to end its journey; or, of a railway line, to reach its terminus.
This train terminates at the next station.
Suspend
To cause to cease for a time; to hinder from proceeding; to interrupt; to delay; to stay.
Suspend your indignation against my brother.
The guard nor fights nor fies; their fate so nearAt once suspends their courage and their fear.
Terminate
(intransitive) To issue or result.
Suspend
To hold in an undetermined or undecided state; as, to suspend one's judgment or opinion.
Terminate
Terminated; limited; bounded; ended.
Suspend
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.
Good men should not be suspended from the exercise of their ministry and deprived of their livelihood for ceremonies which are on all hands acknowledged indifferent.
Terminate
Having a definite and clear limit or boundary; having a determinate size, shape or magnitude.
Mountains on the Moon cast shadows that are very dark, terminate and more distinct than those cast by mountains on the Earth.
Suspend
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.
Terminate
(mathematics) Expressible in a finite number of terms; (of a decimal) not recurring or infinite.
One third is a recurring decimal, but one half is a terminate decimal.
Suspend
To support in a liquid, as an insoluble powder, by stirring, to facilitate chemical action.
Terminate
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.
Suspend
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).
Terminate
To put an end to; to make to cease; as, to terminate an effort, or a controversy.
Suspend
Hang freely;
The secret police suspended their victims from the ceiling and beat them
Terminate
Hence, to put the finishing touch to; to bring to completion; to perfect.
During this interval of calm and prosperity, he [Michael Angelo] terminated two figures of slaves, destined for the tomb, in an incomparable style of art.
Suspend
Cause to be held in suspension in a fluid;
Suspend the particles
Terminate
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.
Suspend
Bar temporarily; from school, office, etc.
Terminate
To come to a limit in time; to end; to close.
The wisdom of this world, its designs and efficacy, terminate on zhis side heaven.
Suspend
Stop a process or a habit by imposing a freeze on it;
Suspend the aid to the war-torn country
Terminate
Bring to an end or halt;
She ended their friendship when she found out that he had once been convicted of a crime
The attack on Poland terminated the relatively peaceful period after WWI
Suspend
Make inoperative or stop;
Suspend payments on the loan
Terminate
Have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical;
The bronchioles terminate in a capillary bed
Your rights stop where you infringe upon the rights of other
My property ends by the bushes
The symphony ends in a pianissimo
Suspend
As of a prison sentence
Terminate
Be the end of; be the last or concluding part of;
This sad scene ended the movie
Terminate
Terminate the employment of;
The boss fired his secretary today
The company terminated 25% of its workers