hang

/hæŋ/ v [I/T] (past tense and past participle hung /hʌŋ/, past tense and past participle hanged) (KILL)

Definition

› to kill someone by fixing a rope around the neck and tying it to something above the person and then causing the body to drop down suddenly: [T] He was sentenced to die and was hanged the next morning.

(Definition of hang v (KILL) from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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hang v ATTACH AT TOP
hang v KILL
hang v STAY
hang v TURN
hang your head idiom
hang-up n
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