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Synonyms for hang

dangle

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lower

lean

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execute

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get the hang of something

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hang around with someone

hang back

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hang on or upon something: depend

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hang on or upon something: listen attentively to

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  • listen attentively to
  • pay attention to
  • be rapt
  • give ear to

hang onto something: retain

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hang onto something: grip

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hang over something or someone

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

Synonyms for hang

to fasten or be fastened at one point with no support from below

to execute by suspending by the neck

to remain stationary over a place or object

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hang around: to visit regularly

hang around: to be with as a companion

hang on: to be determined by or contingent on something unknown, uncertain, or changeable

hang on: to continue without halting despite difficulties or setbacks

hang out: to visit regularly

hang out: to be with as a companion

hang over: to be imminent

hang up: to cause to be later or slower than expected or desired

hang upon: to be determined by or contingent on something unknown, uncertain, or changeable

the proper method for doing, using, or handling something

The American Heritage® Roget's Thesaurus. Copyright © 2013, 2014 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Synonyms for hang

a special way of doing something

the way a garment hangs

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a gymnastic exercise performed on the rings or horizontal bar or parallel bars when the gymnast's weight is supported by the arms

be suspended or hanging

cause to be hanging or suspended

kill by hanging

let drop or droop

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fall or flow in a certain way

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be menacing, burdensome, or oppressive

give heed (to)

hold on tightly or tenaciously

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be exhibited

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prevent from reaching a verdict, of a jury

decorate or furnish with something suspended

be placed in position as by a hinge

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place in position as by a hinge so as to allow free movement in one direction

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suspend (meat) in order to get a gamey taste

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The Namibian Police Force's regional crime investigations coordinator, Deputy Commissioner Bonifasius Kanyetu told Nampa the deceased hanged himself with a nylon rope and died instantly.
In the film, Hangman Takuzo hangs himself while Namiko Kawamura walks forward naked and Mika Kurosawa dances her dance in this little house on an island off Hiroshima.
Interesting places to hang stuff encourages hanging.
If a thing will lean without falling, if a large wooden structure can hang on a nail, then that suffices: an economy of means, meticulously applied.
But here comes that second hurdle: knowing the secrets of being the GF he can't wait to hang out with.
--The loader hangs his helmet on the shoulder guard at his station.
Axelle, with its 4,500-square foot, five-level Soho location, has extensive wall space and hangs its gallery in a museum style to cater to its higher-end clientele.
From that, a sign hangs down proclaiming The Disney Store.
The tensile loads on the stainless steel three-dimensional truss from which the glass wall hangs are transferred by the fingers to become largely compressive loads bearing on the concrete columns.
The best places are near water (animals need it and will find it) or at the edge between two habitats - the edge of a woods, perhaps, or the edge of a field (more wildlife hangs out there).
Her self-presentation doesn't take itself too seriously; it just hangs there, fertile.
WHAT HE DOES He's got a foul mouth, takes stupid risks, hangs with the wrong crowd and thinks detention is a required class.
There is only that one incident in his childhood - when the boy hangs himself.
Which is what I have been doing." The notion that Bourgeois' work must be seen as fragments of a diary aspiring to reconstitute a negated subjectivity is affirmed in Untitled, 1996, in which the artist's own clothing (some dating from the '40s) hangs on rods connected to metal posts.