verb Download 🔗Share To be or remain suspended. Examples : "The lights hung from the ceiling." action physics Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To float, as if suspended. Examples : "The smoke hung in the room." nature physics Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share (of a ball in cricket, tennis, etc.) To rebound unexpectedly or unusually slowly, due to backward spin on the ball or imperfections of the ground. Examples : "The cricket ball hung in the air for a long time before finally dropping near the batter's feet. " sport Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To hold or bear in a suspended or inclined manner or position instead of erect. Examples : "He hung his head in shame." position action Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To cause (something) to be suspended, as from a hook, hanger, hinges or the like. Examples : "Hang those lights from the ceiling." action utility building structure Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To execute (someone) by suspension from the neck. Examples : "The culprits were hanged from the nearest tree." law government action history Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To be executed by suspension by one's neck from a gallows, a tree, or other raised bar, attached by a rope tied into a noose. Examples : "You will hang for this, my friend." law government inhuman history action Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share (used in maledictions) To damn. Examples : "My teacher said that if I didn't study, she would hang me with the low grade. " curse religion supernatural theology Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To loiter, hang around, to spend time idly. Examples : "After school, the children were hanging around the park, chatting with friends. " action human time Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To exhibit (an object) by hanging. Examples : "The art teacher hung the student's paintings on the classroom wall. " art appearance Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To apply (wallpaper or drywall to a wall). Examples : "The carpenter was hanging drywall on the new bedroom wall. " building architecture property Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To decorate (something) with hanging objects. Examples : "The students are hanging colorful posters all around the classroom. " appearance style building Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To remain persistently in one's thoughts. Examples : "The problem with the presentation has been hanging in my mind all day. " mind sensation Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To prevent from reaching a decision, especially by refusing to join in a verdict that must be unanimous. Examples : "One obstinate juror can hang a jury." law government politics Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To stop responding to manual input devices such as keyboard and mouse. Examples : "The computer has hung again. Not even pressing ++ works. When I push this button the program hangs." computing technology machine electronics internet device system Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To cause (a program or computer) to stop responding. Examples : "The program has a bug that can hang the system." computing technology electronics Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To cause (a piece) to become vulnerable to capture. Examples : "The thief was hanging the expensive painting in the art gallery so it would be easy to steal. " sport game Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To be vulnerable to capture. Examples : "In this standard opening position White has to be careful because the pawn on e4 hangs." situation military war politics state Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share Of a pitcher, to throw a hittable off-speed pitch. Examples : "The pitcher hanging a curveball fooled the batter, and he struck out. " sport Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
adjective Download 🔗Share Suspended. Examples : "The hanging vines made the house look older than it was." position condition structure building Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
adjective Download 🔗Share (of a piece) Unprotected and exposed to capture. Examples : "The hanging artwork in the hallway was vulnerable to damage. " position business military Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
adjective Download 🔗Share (of an off-speed pitch) Hittable; poorly executed by the pitcher hence relatively easy to hit. Examples : "hanging breaking ball" sport Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
adjective Download 🔗Share (of a person) ugly; very unattractive Examples : "My uncle is a hanging man; he always wears clothes that are too tight and don't fit him well. " appearance person Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share The act of hanging a person (or oneself) by the neck in order to kill that person (or to commit suicide). Examples : "Hanging is the punishment for one convicted of war crimes, there." action law inhuman society government history Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A sometimes public event at which a person is hanged. Examples : "The hanging of the bandits was attended by the whole village." event law history action Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share Anything that is hung as a decorative element (such as curtains, gobelins or posters). Examples : "The various hangings on that Christmas tree look nice." art style appearance property building item Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share The way in which hangings (decorations) are arranged. Examples : "I dislike the cramped hanging in the gallery of 18th century painters." appearance style Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading