Hanging is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for HANGING in dictionary:

NOUN:
• execution by strangling with a suspended noose
• the practice of hanging condemned people as a form of capital punishment
• a decorative piece of fabric or curtain hung on the wall of a room or around a bed.
• The act of suspending anything; the state of being suspended.
• Death by suspension; execution by a halter.
• That which is hung as lining or drapery for the walls of a room, as tapestry, paper, etc., or to cover or drape a door or window; -- used chiefly in the plural.
• decoration that is hung (as a tapestry) on a wall or over a window
• a form of capital punishment; victim is suspended by the neck from a gallows or gibbet until dead
• the act of suspending something (hanging it from above so it moves freely)
ADJECTIVE:
• suspended in the air
• situated or designed so as to appear to hang down
• Requiring, deserving, or foreboding death by the halter.
• Suspended from above; pendent; as, hanging shelves.
• Adapted for sustaining a hanging object; as, the hanging post of a gate, the post which holds the hinges.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to attach from above only
• an execution by strangling with a suspended noose

Words related to HANGING

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Words that contain HANGING

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How to use HANGING in a sentence

• I could hear her rattling the bottles in the medicine cabinet hanging on this very wall.
• The green mountain rose between us and the fading sunset, and the yellow moon was hanging in the east, as we took our dinner at the tent-door.
• The Beech forms a pleasing exception to this habit, having leaves that point upward and outwardly, instead of hanging loosely.
• Here was a strange animal, with the head and ears of the pig, sometimes hanging on the limb of a tree, and occasionally swinging like the monkey by the tail.
• Hanging between two skies, a cloud with edges of silver, Floated the boat, with its dripping oars, on the motionless water.
• He inferred then that the advance of Abercrombie had been delayed, and the French were merely hanging on until their retreat became compulsory.
• His clothes were hanging against the wall, and he dressed himself.
• A good deal of hanging fire there was also, but given and returned in a better spirit, between.
• Her schoolfellows declared that Emmeline always went about with her mouth hanging open.
• He landed as before, on his hands and knees, and for an instant he stayed in that position, his head hanging between his arms and swaying limply from side to side.
• There was a little red lamp hanging on a pile of stones to warn people that the street was being repaired.
• But the Nightingale, they told me, hanging in its golden cage beside the fountain, was silent.
• But for the second time he stood stockstill, weighed down by the feeling of some presence, oppressed by the sense of something vaguely hanging over him.
• Jerome hanging in his drawing-room, without ever thinking of Domenichino, as to believe one can be the constant witness of these natural glories without thinking of God.
• Care should also be taken in hanging and fastening properly upon the line.
• Then the doctor examined the wound and found a string hanging from it, and a large bullet suspended upon the string.
• The cacique and seven of his principal followers wore leaves of gold in their noses, hanging down to their lips, and in their opinion no more beautiful ornament exists.

Similar words containing HANG without suffix ing

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