hanging

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Synonyms: banging, changing, ranging, handing, hinging, ganging, tanging, hagging, whanging, hangin, hanning

Antonyms: banging, changing, ranging, handing, hinging, ganging, tanging, hagging, whanging, hangin, hanning

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Verb

1. present participle and gerund of hang

Adjective

1. Suspended.
   • The hanging vines made the house look older than it was.
2. Unprotected and exposed to capture.
3. Hittable; poorly executed by the pitcher, hence relatively easy to hit.
   • hanging breaking ball
   • hanging slider
4. Ugly; very unattractive; disgusting.
5. Extending beyond the margins of a page.
   • hanging punctuation

Noun

1. The act of hanging a person (or oneself) by the neck in order to kill that person (or to commit suicide).
   • Hanging is the punishment for one convicted of war crimes, there.
   • The hanging of the bandits was attended by the whole village.
2. Anything that is hung as a decorative element (such as curtains, gobelins, or posters).
   • The various hangings on that Christmas tree look nice.
3. The way in which hangings (decorations) are arranged.
   • I dislike the cramped hanging in the gallery of 18th century painters.

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