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. Becki Falwell:

   Hang up the goddamn phone, hang up the phone, Jerry!

2. 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.

3. Patricia Kim:

   I think the President Joe Biden administration has tried to distinguish its North Korea policy by making the case that it's not interested in flashy summits or grand bargains, but that it wants to take a practical and calibrated approach to build towards the complete denuclearization of North Korea, i think the hang up, of course, is not so much Patricia Kim policy, but the fact that North Korea seems to have zero interest in talking about denuclearization.

4. Nat Beuse:

   I appreciate the way Uber has been a good party, i did notice that when I talked to their CEO, he did not hang up on me.

5. Marija Stonyte:

   I believe that even silence between my husband and that woman was really important, i mean, she didn't hang up the phone. She waited for a long time, she wanted to hear every single word.