Synonyms for hanging
ˈhæŋ ɪŋhang·ing

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1. hanging, wall hangingnoun

   decoration that is hung (as a tapestry) on a wall or over a window

   "the cold castle walls were covered with hangings"

   Synonyms:
   dangling, suspension, wall hanging

2. hangingnoun

   a form of capital punishment; victim is suspended by the neck from a gallows or gibbet until dead

   "in those days the hanging of criminals was a public entertainment"

   Synonyms:
   dangling, suspension, wall hanging

3. suspension, dangling, hangingnoun

   the act of suspending something (hanging it from above so it moves freely)

   "there was a small ceremony for the hanging of the portrait"

   Synonyms:
   interruption, abeyance, dangling, respite, wall hanging, intermission, abatement, reprieve, pause, suspension system, temporary removal, suspension, hiatus, break

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1. hangingnoun

   Synonyms:
   suspension

2. hangingnoun

   Synonyms:
   death by the halter

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1. hangingadjective

   Synonyms:
   suspended, pendent, pendulous, pensile, dangling

2. hangingnoun

   Synonyms:
   suspension, execution, drapery, valance, tapestry, dorsal, lambrequin

   Associated words:
   gallows gibbet

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1. List of paraphrases for "hanging":

   hangman, dangling, suspended

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How to use hanging in a sentence?

1. Leonard Steinhorn:

   Integration is not just hanging out( together). It’s having access to credit, it’s seeing the value of your home increase, it’s accumulating wealth.

2. Kim Sung-tae:

   Kim Yong Chol is a diabolical war criminal who attacked the South, he deserves death by hanging in the street.

3. Robin Smyton:

   It's all about hanging out, and eating food.

4. Dwight Eisenhower, April 16, 1953:

   Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.

5. Dan Swangard:

   My wife says I'd be hanging on to life by my fingernails.