hangverb
uk/hæŋ/us/hæŋ/hang verb (FIX AT TOP)
B1 [ I or T, + adv/prep ] hung, hung to fasten or support something at the top leaving the other parts free to move, or to be held in this way:
[ T ] hung, hung If you hang wallpaper, you fix it to the wall.
More examples
- If I were you, I'd hang that sweater on the line and let it drip-dry.
- We could hang this picture on the wall next to the door.
- A string of onions hung from a beam in the kitchen.
- The shirts hanging on the line billowed in the breeze.
- Stand the paintings against the wall while we decide where to hang them.
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Hanging and suspending
- cascade
- dangle
- dangly
- drape
- droop
- fall
- flow
- pendant
- pendent
- pendulous
- sag
- saggy
- sling
- slung
- string
- string sth up
- suspend
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hang verb (KILL)
B2 [ I or T ] hanged or hung, hanged or hung to kill someone, especially as punishment for a serious crime, by dropping them with a rope tied around their neck, or to die in this way:
More examples
- The leaders of the rebellion were hanged as traitors.
- Ruth Ellis has the dubious distinction of being the last woman to be hanged in Britain.
- She said he should be hanged for what he has done, and that he does not deserve to live.
- Traitors would be publicly hung, drawn and quartered in Tudor times.
- The gibbet still stands today, at the crossroads where common criminals were hanged.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Death penalties
- behead
- burn
- capital punishment
- chair
- condemn
- condemn sb to (do) sth
- condemned
- decapitate
- execute
- execution
- executioner
- gallows
- hangman
- hung, drawn, and quartered idiom
- noose
- scaffold
- stake
- stone
- string
- string sb up
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hang verb (STAY)
C2 [ I ] hung, hung to stay in the air:
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Staying and remaining
- closeted
- halt
- hold
- hold sb over
- keep to somewhere
- leave
- leftover
- residual
- rest
- sit tight idiom
- sojourn
- stand
- stay
- stay behind
- stop
- tarry
- vestigial
- wait
- wait behind
- wait for sb
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hang verb (BEND DOWN)
[ I or T ] hung, hung to curve down:
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Hanging and suspending
- cascade
- dangle
- dangly
- drape
- droop
- fall
- flow
- pendant
- pendent
- pendulous
- sag
- saggy
- sling
- slung
- string
- string sth up
- suspend
hang verb (SPEND TIME)
informal mainly US to spend time relaxing with a person or in a place:
More examples
- We play music together, hang with girls, play basketball.
- My boyfriend doesn't like me always hanging with my friends.
- Do you want to come over and hang at my place?
Idiom(s)
Phrasal verb(s)
hangnoun
uk/hæŋ/us/hæŋ/to learn how to do something, especially if it is not obvious or simple:
the way something made of cloth looks when it is hanging:
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Adapting and attuning to something
- accustom yourself to sth
- accustomed
- adapt
- adaptable
- as (if) to the manner born idiom
- bearing
- get into the swing of it/things idiom
- get into your stride idiom
- habituated
- hardened
- inure sb to sth
- plug
- second nature
- settle
- settle down
- settle in
- settle sb in
- settled
- stride
- swing
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