verb
- Be suspended or hanging.
- usage: "The flag hung on the wall"
- synonyms: hang
- Cause to be hanging or suspended.
- usage: "Hang that picture on the wall"
- Kill by hanging.
- usage: "The murderer was hanged on Friday"
- Let drop or droop.
- usage: "Hang one's head in shame"
- synonyms: hang
- Fall or flow in a certain way.
- usage: "This dress hangs well"; "Her long black hair flowed down her back"
- Be menacing, burdensome, or oppressive.
- usage: "This worry hangs on my mind"; "The cloud of suspicion hangs over her"
- synonyms: hang
- Give heed (to. )
- usage: "The children in the audience attended the recital quietly"; "She hung on his every word"; "They attended to everything he said"
- Be suspended or poised.
- usage: "Heavy fog hung over the valley"
- synonyms: hang
- Hold on tightly or tenaciously.
- usage: "hang on to your father's hands"; "The child clung to his mother's apron"
- Be exhibited.
- usage: "Picasso hangs in this new wing of the museum"
- synonyms: hang
- Prevent from reaching a verdict, of a jury.
- synonyms: hang
- Decorate or furnish with something suspended.
- usage: "Hang wallpaper"
- synonyms: hang
- Be placed in position as by a hinge.
- usage: "This cabinet door doesn't hang right"
- synonyms: hang
- Place in position as by a hinge so as to allow free movement in one direction.
- usage: "hang a door"
- synonyms: hang
- Suspend (meat) in order to get a gamey taste.
- usage: "hang the venison for a few days"
- synonyms: hang
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