Word Finder - hanged

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To be or remain suspended.

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The lights hung from the ceiling.

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To float, as if suspended.

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The smoke hung in the room.

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(of a ball in cricket, tennis, etc.) To rebound unexpectedly or unusually slowly, due to backward spin on the ball or imperfections of the ground.

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To hold or bear in a suspended or inclined manner or position instead of erect.

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He hung his head in shame.

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To cause (something) to be suspended, as from a hook, hanger, hinges or the like.

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Hang those lights from the ceiling.

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To execute (someone) by suspension from the neck.

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The culprits were hanged from the nearest tree.

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To be executed by suspension by one's neck from a gallows, a tree, or other raised bar, attached by a rope tied into a noose.

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You will hang for this, my friend.

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(used in maledictions) To damn.

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To loiter, hang around, to spend time idly.

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Are you busy, or can you hang with me?  I didn't see anything, officer. I was just hanging.

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To exhibit (an object) by hanging.

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To apply (wallpaper or drywall to a wall).

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Let's hang this cute animal design in the nursery.

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To decorate (something) with hanging objects.

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Let's hang the nursery with some new wallpaper.

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To remain persistently in one's thoughts.

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To prevent from reaching a decision, especially by refusing to join in a verdict that must be unanimous.

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One obstinate juror can hang a jury.

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To stop responding to manual input devices such as keyboard and mouse.

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The computer has hung again. Not even pressing ++ works.  When I push this button the program hangs.

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To cause (a program or computer) to stop responding.

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The program has a bug that can hang the system.

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To cause (a piece) to become vulnerable to capture.

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If you move there, you'll hang your rook.

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To be vulnerable to capture.

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In this standard opening position White has to be careful because the pawn on e4 hangs.

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Of a pitcher, to throw a hittable off-speed pitch.

The citizens organized a " vigilance committee " and hanged many of the outlaws.

Of these 38 were hanged at Mankato on the 26th of December 1862.

I don't know why she hanged herself when she had a bottle of sleeping pills right next to her bed but wacky people do wacky things.

A long time ago, a house maid is rumored to have hanged herself on the upper floor of the hotel.

In June 1278 he was charged with various crimes, including one of poisoning the king's eldest son, and hanged at Montfaucon.

On the 2nd of April 1571 Mary's party lost Dumbarton castle, which Crawford of Jordanhill took by a daring night surprise; and Archbishop Hamilton, a prisoner, was hanged without trial.

One of these under Humbert succeeded in landing a force in Killala Bay, and gained some success in Connaught before it was subdued by Lake and Cornwallis, Wolfe Tone's brother Matthew being captured, tried by court-martial, and hanged; a second, accompanied by Napper Tandy (q.v.), came to disaster on the coast of Donegal; while Wolfe Tone took part in a third, under Admiral Bompard, with General Hardy in command of a force of about 3000 men, which encountered an English squadron near Lough Swilly on the 12th of October 1798.

Two of his brothers were taken in Galloway and hanged at Carlisle, while King Edward, a dying man, lay with a great army at Carlisle, or at the neighbouring abbey of Lanercost.

About fifty people were hanged for practicing witchcraft during his reign.

In the so-called Swing Riots of 1830, nine men classed as machine wreckers were hanged.

It is encircled by a wall measuring upwards of a mile in circumference, and is prettily planted with trees, on one of which the last emperor of the Ming dynasty (1644), finding escape from the Manchu invaders impossible, hanged himself.

The city was given over to Pope Clement, who, disregarding the terms of the capitulation, had Carducci and Girolami (the last gonfaloniere) hanged, and established Alessandro de' Medici, the natural son of Lorenzo, duke of Urbino, as head of the republic on the 5th of July 1531.

After the war Henry Wirz, the superintendent, was tried by a court-martial, and on the 10th of November 1865 was hanged, and the revelation of the sufferings of the prisoners was one of the factors that shaped public opinion regarding the South in the Northern states, after the close of the Civil War.

The granting of a reprieve was hotly resented by the people of Edinburgh, and on the night of the 7th of September 1736 an armed body of men in disguise broke into the prison, seized Porteous, and hanged him on a signpost in the street.

He dared not show himself in the streets without the protection of prize-fighters, while the jack-boot (a pun upon his name) and the petticoat, by which the princess was represented, were continually being burnt by the mob or hanged upon the gallows.

Like other prominent Regicides, Ireton 's corpse was exhumed and hanged at Tyburn.

In the potting shed a butler is said to have hanged himself from the rafters.

I have a friend(boy) and we hanged out last year a lot!

The more I hanged out with him the more I started to like him!

He then fled to Scotland, but was later apprehended in London, charged with inciting rebellion, and hanged (May 1593).

In 1831 he was implicated in the revolutionary movement organized by Ciro Menotti (see Francis Iv., of Modena), and was condemned to death and hanged in effigy, but escaped to France, where he was given an appointment in the French corps of engineers.

Mary took leave of her first and last master with passionate anguish and many parting kisses; but in face of his enemies, and in hearing of the cries which burst from the ranks, demanding her death by fire as a murderess and harlot, the whole heroic and passionate spirit of the woman, represented by her admirers as a spiritless imbecile, flamed out in responsive threats to have all the men hanged and crucified, in whose power she now stood helpless and alone.

The kings he sacrificed to Ammon and hanged six bodies on the walls, while the seventh was carried south to Napata and there exposed as a terror to the Ethiopians.

In 1748 a Protestant Episcopal Church was organized, and before and during the War of Independence its members belonged to the Loyalist party; their rector, Rev. James Nichols, was tarred and feathered by the Whigs, and Moses Dunbar, a member of the church, was hanged for treason by the Connecticut authorities.

Some Carbonarist disorders having broken out in Calabria, Murat sent General Manhes against the rebels; the movement was ruthlessly quelled and Capobianco hanged in Septemlber 1813 (see Greco, Inlorno al tentativo dei Carbonari di Citeriore Calabria nel 1813).

The leaders of the 1820 Radical Rising were quickly brought to trial and hanged for treason against the British State.

I found out last month he hanged out with these guys I think that are bratty.

Bellingham was certainly insane, but the plea was set aside and he was hanged.

He was, however, sentenced to be hanged on the 12th of November; but on the nth he cut his throat with a penknife, and on the 19th of November 17 9 8 he died of the wound.

Thus various parts of criminals, such as the thigh bone of a hanged man, moss grown on a human skull, &c., were used, and even the celebrated Dr Culpeper in the 17th century recommended " the ashes of the head of a coal black cat as a specific for such as have a skin growing over their sight."

As a punishment she was sentenced to be buried alive in a vault, where she hanged herself, and Haemon killed himself in despair.

The doors were opened, the ringleaders were admitted and immediately seized and hanged.

With the co-operation of the Indians under their chief Saturiba he captured Fort San Mateo in the spring of 1568, and on the spot where the garrison of Fort Caroline had been executed, he hanged his Spanish prisoners, inscribing on a tablet of pine the words, " I do this not as unto Spaniards but as to traitors, robbers and murderers."

At his trial he was defended and betrayed by the infamous Leonard MacNally, and was convicted of treason; and after delivering an eloquent speech from the dock, was hanged on the 20th of September 1803.

He made a good defence, but on the absurdest of evidence the jury convicted him of treason, and on the 1st of July he was hanged, drawn and quartered at Tyburn.

Mustafa, delivered up by treachery, was hanged (1424); but Murad remained in Asia, restoring order in the provinces, while his lieutenants continued the war against the Greeks, Albanians and Walachians.

It is said to have been stolen and burnt in 1532, three of the four thieves being subsequently taken and hanged.

He was hanged on the 21st, with Wishart's laudatory biography of him put round his neck.

But the plot being discovered during their inactivity, the conspirators were banished to Africa, and Tira-dentes, the leader, was hanged.

On October 6, 1849, thirteen generals who had taken part in the war, including Damjanics and Counts Vecsey and Leiningen, were hanged or shot at Arad.

Fries and two others were twice tried for treason (the second time before Samuel Chase) and were sentenced to be hanged, but they were pardoned by President Adams in April 1800, and a general amnesty was issued on 21st May.

After the defeat of Lancaster at Boroughbridge, Badlesmere was taken and hanged at Canterbury on the 14th of April 1322.

In 1736 a smuggler named Wilson, who had won popularity by helping a companion to escape from the Tolbooth prison, was hanged; and, some slight disturbance occurring at the execution, the city guard fired on the mob, killing a few and wounding a considerable number of persons.

In October 1761 another son, Antoine, hanged himself in his father's warehouse.

His chief agent, Captain (afterwards Sir William) Sleeman, with several competent assistants, and the co-operation of a number of native states, succeeded in completely grappling with the evil, so that up to October 1835 no fewer than 1562 Thugs had been committed, of which number 382 were hanged and 986 transported or imprisoned for life.

A little later (January 1657) he suppressed with ruthless severity a rising of the spahis; a certain Sheik Salim, leader of the fanatical mob of the capital, was drowned in the Bosporus; and the Greek Patriarch, who had written to the voivode of Wallachia to announce the approaching downfall of Islam, was hanged.

He was hanged at Madrid in the Plaza de la Cebada on the 7th of November 1823.

John Penry then fled to Scotland, but was later apprehended in London, charged with inciting rebellion, and hanged (May 1593).

He razed the walls and allowed the women, children and priests to retire in safety to Liege, but the male prisoners he either hanged or drowned in the river by causing them to be cast from the projecting cliff of Bouvignes.

This silly libel so enraged the performers at the Opera that they hanged and burned with him, the Dijon academy, which had founded his fame, announced the subject of "The Origin of Inequality," on which he wrote a discourse which was unsuccessful, but at least equal to the former in merit.