hanging.
Suspended.
Meaning & usage
Suspended.
The hanging vines made the house look older than it was.
Unprotected and exposed to capture.
Hittable; poorly executed by the pitcher, hence relatively easy to hit.
hanging breaking ball
hanging slider
Ugly; very unattractive; disgusting.
Extending beyond the margins of a page.
hanging punctuation
Where this word comes from
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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.
Anything that is hung as a decorative element (such as curtains, gobelins, or posters).
The various hangings on that Christmas tree look nice.
The way in which hangings (decorations) are arranged.
I dislike the cramped hanging in the gallery of 18th century painters.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English hangynge, honginge, equivalent to hang + -ing. Compare Old English hengen (“hanging”) and hōhing (“hanging”).
present participle and gerund of hang
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