Synonyms for hang up
hang up

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1. hang upverb

   To terminate a telephone call

   When my mother started telling me to be careful over the phone, I threatened to hang up on her

   Synonyms:
   release

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1. hang-upnoun

   an emotional preoccupation

   Synonyms:
   hitch, snag, rub

2. hang-up, hitch, rub, snagverb

   an unforeseen obstacle

   Synonyms:
   rent, split, enlistment, preventative, term of enlistment, duty tour, stay, preventive, tear, wipe, limp, hitch, tour, interference, stoppage, check, tour of duty, hinderance, incumbrance, hobble, snag, halt, encumbrance, hang-up, hindrance, rip, stop, arrest, rub

3. hang upverb

   put a telephone receiver back in its cradle

   Synonyms:
   hang

4. hang, hang upverb

   cause to be hanging or suspended

   "Hang that picture on the wall"

   Synonyms:
   fall, advert, string up, cling, attend, give ear, flow, pay heed, hang

5. hang upverb

   interrupt a telephone conversation

   Synonyms:
   hang

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1. Katie Bryant:

   A female answered the phone as I was FaceTiming, and she was screaming. And I was like, ‘What’s wrong?' And she said, ‘They shot him,' and faced the phone toward the driver’s seat, and my son was laying there. He was unresponsive. He looked dead. And I heard somebody say hang up the phone again, and it disconnected again.

2. Jane Slusser:

   We are seeing shortages again, folks who have been doing it for 40 years are starting to hang up their hats. We're also seeing that there's a lack of awareness that this is an issue. In presidential years, people think a lot about elections. In midterm elections, people think less about this.

3. Edmund King:

   Many commentators use high-profile car crashes involving elderly drivers as a reason to call for bans or restrictions on older drivers, the decision to hang up your keys is a tough one but should be based on personal advice from your GP and family rather than being based on some arbitrary age. We all age differently and the car is an essential lifeline for many elderly people.

4. Mario Gonzalez:

   It just got progressively worse, we were not going to hang up this phone on the young lady.

5. Yousef Abbasi:

   My big hang-up here is when the curve does start to flatten, that doesn't mean we can return to normal human and economic behavior, if we do return to normal human and economic behavior, we risk the chance the curve goes parabolic again. Just from the perspective of how long this potentially can last, there's still a great deal of uncertainty.