Antonyms 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. hangingadjective

   Synonyms:
   suspended, pendent, pendulous, pensile, dangling

2. hangingnoun

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

   Associated words:
   gallows gibbet

How to use hanging in a sentence?

1. Prosecutor Molins:

   The head was discovered hanging on the factory's wire fence, framed by two flags that included references to the shahada, or (Muslim) profession of faith.

2. Dwight D. Eisenhower, From a speech before the American Society of Newspaper Editors, April 16, 1963:

   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 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 cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.

3. Brad Bannon:

   Democrats were caught between a rock and a hard place, they wanted to take a stern line against powerful men, like President Donald Trump and [Supreme Court Justice] Brett Kavanaugh, that were accused of sexual misconduct, but they felt like they couldn't do it with Clinton hanging around.

4. John Bunyan:

   Hanging is too good for him said Mr. Cruelty.

5. Sarosh Ashraf Janjua:

   I think we are all just hanging on to something that makes us feel safe, somehow, for Americans, that something has become N95 masks and toilet paper. Trooper Schwartz' act of kindness became my something.

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