All adjourn synonyms

verb adjourn

• defer — If you defer an event or action, you arrange for it to happen at a later date, rather than immediately or at the previously planned time.
• recess — temporary withdrawal or cessation from the usual work or activity.
• put off — to move or place (anything) so as to get it into or out of a specific location or position: to put a book on the shelf.
• discontinue — to put an end to; stop; terminate: to discontinue nuclear testing.
• delay — If you delay doing something, you do not do it immediately or at the planned or expected time, but you leave it until later.
• suspend — to hang by attachment to something above: to suspend a chandelier from the ceiling.
• shelve — to place (something) on a shelf or shelves.
• postpone — to put off to a later time; defer: He has postponed his departure until tomorrow.
• curb — If you curb something, you control it and keep it within limits.
• restrain — to hold back from action; keep in check or under control; repress: to restrain one's temper.
• stay — (of a ship) to change to the other tack.
• prorogue — to discontinue a session of (the British Parliament or a similar body).
• hold back — to elude or evade by a sudden shift of position or by strategy: to dodge a blow; to dodge a question.
• interrupt — to cause or make a break in the continuity or uniformity of (a course, process, condition, etc.).
• stop — to cease from, leave off, or discontinue: to stop running.
• finish — to bring (something) to an end or to completion; complete: to finish a novel; to finish breakfast.
• break off — If part of something breaks off or if you break it off, it comes off or is removed by force.
• call it a day — If you call it a day, you decide to stop what you are doing because you are tired of it or because it is not successful.
• call a halt — to put an end (to something); stop
• hold up — to have or keep in the hand; keep fast; grasp: She held the purse in her right hand. He held the child's hand in his.
• hold off — to have or keep in the hand; keep fast; grasp: She held the purse in her right hand. He held the child's hand in his.
• hold over — to have or keep in the hand; keep fast; grasp: She held the purse in her right hand. He held the child's hand in his.