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Princeton's WordNet1.7 / 3 votes

  1. 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, respite, wall hanging, hanging, intermission, abatement, reprieve, pause, suspension system, temporary removal, suspension, hiatus, break

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  1. List of paraphrases for "dangling":

    hanging

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Words popularity by usage frequency

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#1618break
#5067suspension
#6086hanging
#10611pause
#17400interruption
#19980abatement
#22368respite
#25694dangling
#28330hiatus
#34313intermission
#56356reprieve
#85297abeyance

How to use dangling in a sentence?

  1. Robert Costello:

    Does dangled mean that he( Cohen) raised it and I mentioned it to Rudy Giuliani, and Rudy Giuliani said the President is not going to discuss pardons with anybody ? If that's dangling it, that's dangling it for about 15 seconds, the first time I kind of danced around the issue because Michael Cohen brought it up with me and I told Michael Cohen,' Look, this is way too premature. ... But if you want me to bring it up, I will bring it up.' And I did.

  2. Andrew Flusche:

    Virginia still penalizes dangling objects, but the police now must have another justification to first stop the vehicle, dangling object stops are a classic example of a pretextual stop, where the police are looking for a valid reason to stop a motorist for something else -- such as suspicion of DUI or maybe to try to search the vehicle.

  3. Predrag Maric:

    The main problem is that the terrain is very rugged, inaccessible, technicians are dangling over deep ravines from cables covered with an inch of ice.

  4. Robert Ray:

    If anyone thinks these dangling investigations are going to be a stalking horse for a continuation of the Mueller investigation, they're dreaming.

  5. Jesse Fox:

    It's all about me. It's putting me in the frame. I'm getting attention and when I post that to social media, I'm getting the confirmation that I need from other people that I'm awesome, you don't care about the tourist attraction you're destroying; you don't care about annoying people in your social media feed ... you're not even thinking about the consequences of your actions, so who cares if you're dangling off the side of the Eiffel Tower?


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