Hang


Synonyms for hang
verb suspend or be suspended

hover
flap
pin
drift
float
cover
dangle
lean
wave
bend
attach
remain

drape
decorate
swing
hold
stick
flop
deck
sag
rest
nail
adhere
depend

droop
fix
loll
lop
cling
overhang
impend
trail
tack
lower
incline
drop

bow
project
fasten
furnish
stay up
beetle
be fastened
be in mid-air
be loose
be pendent
be poised

Antonyms for hang

detach
disregard
straighten
release
loosen

unfasten
abandon
forget
remove
do

let go
separate
rise

Synonyms
verb kill by suspension from a rope

stretch
execute
hoist

swing
noose
lynch

scrag
gibbet
send to the gallows

string up

Synonyms
verb depend on future action

hinge
await
rest

cling
pend
turn on

be conditional upon
be contingent on
be dependent on

be determined by
be in limbo
be in suspense

Usage Notes

Hang has two forms for the past tense and past participle, hanged and hung. The historically older form hanged is now used exclusively in the sense of causing or putting to death: He was sentenced to be hanged by the neck until dead. In the sense of legal execution, hung is also quite common and is standard in all types of speech and writing except in legal documents. When legal execution is not meant, hung has become the more frequent form: The prisoner hung himself in his cell.

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