hang – English verb conjugation

Nominal Forms

Infinitive: to hang about with sb
Participle: hanged about with sb; hung about with sb
Gerund: hanging about with sb

Cognates

-

Indicative

Subjunctive

Conditional

Imperative

you	hang about with sb
we	Let's hang about with sb
you	hang about with sb

Indicative

Conditional

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms

be or remain suspended

dangle, suspend

execute (someone) by suspension from the neck

kill by hanging

be executed

gallows, swing, take a ride to Tyburn, die by hanging

to have something as a necessary condition

depend, hinge, lean, rely, rest, stay, turn

dangle

hook, suspend, attach

execute

gibbet, lynch

decorate

adorn, drape, furnish

cling

adhere, depend, rely, rest

hesitate

demur, halt, waver

hover

float, linger, poise, loiter

Antonyms

execute

fail, quit, abandon

hesitate

jump, attack, hasten, career

Additional Information

Phrasal Verbs

Etymology

1. a fusion of O.E. hon "suspend" (transitive, class VII strong verb; past tense heng, pp. hangen), and O.E. hangian (weak, intransitive, past tense hangode) "be suspended;" also probably influenced by O.N. hengja "suspend," and hanga "be suspended." All from P.Gmc. *khang-, from PIE *keng- "to waver, be in suspense" (cf. Goth. hahan, Hittite gang- "to hang," Skt. sankate "wavers," L. cunctari "to delay;" see also second element in Stonehenge). Hung emerged as pp. 16c. in northern England dial., and hanged endured only in legal language (which tends to be conservative) and metaphors extended from it (I'll be hanged). Teen slang sense of "spend time" first recorded 1951; hang around "idle, loiter" is from 1830, and hang out (v.) is from 1844. Hang fire (1781) was originally used of guns that were slow in communicating the fire through the vent to the charge. Hanger-on is from 1549. To get the hang of (something) "understand" is from 1845. Hang-up "psychological fixation" is first attested 1959. To let it all hang out "be relaxed and uninhibited" is from 1970.
2. From Middle English hangen, hongen, from a fusion of Old English hōn (“to hang, be hanging”, transitive verb) and hangian (“to hang, cause to hang”, intransitive verb), respectively from the transitive verb Proto-West Germanic *hą̄han and the intransitive verb *hangēn; also probably influenced by Old Norse hengja (“to suspend”) and hanga (“to be suspended”); all from Proto-Germanic *hanhaną and *hangāną, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱenk- (“to waver, be in suspense”).
3. See also Dutch hangen, Low German hangen and hängen, German hängen, Norwegian Bokmål henge, Norwegian Nynorsk henga; also Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌷𐌰𐌽 (hāhan), Hittite 𒂵𒀀𒀭𒂵 (/⁠kānk-⁠/, “to hang”), Sanskrit शङ्कते (śáṅkate, “is in doubt, hesitates”), Latin cūnctārī (“to delay”). See: Middle English 'hangen', Proto-Germanic '*hanhaną', Dutch 'hangen', Low Saxon 'hangen', German, old spelling 'hängen', Norwegian 'henge', Norwegian, nynorsk 'henga', Sanskrit 'शङ्कते', Latin 'cunctor'.

Verbs referencing "hang"

German, old spelling hängen, Norwegian, nynorsk hengja, Cimbrian hangan, Latin cunctor, Luxembourgish hänken, Norwegian, nynorsk henga, Sanskrit शङ्कते, Danish hænge.

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