hang up
Verb
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Verb
hang up (third-person singular simple present hangs up, present participle hanging up, simple past and past participle hung up)
- (transitive) To put up to hang.
- I hung up my wash on the line.
- (intransitive, idiomatic) To terminate a telephone call, originally by hanging the receiver on its hook or cradle thereby automatically disconnecting the line.
- When my mother started telling me to be careful over the phone, I threatened to hang up on her.
- (intransitive, figurative) To stop talking.
- To keep delayed, suspended, held up, or stuck.
- To rob or mug (someone).
- To arrest (someone); to send (someone) to prison.
- To quit (something); to give up or stop doing (something); to abandon (something).
- He hung up the flute after college.
- I think it's time to hang it up.
- To distress, disadvantage or harm (someone).
- (terminate a phone call) release (a call from), put the phone down (on); ring off
- French: suspendre
- German: aufhängen
- Italian: appendere
- Portuguese: pendurar
- Russian: ве́шать
- Spanish: colgar
- French: raccrocher, raccrocher au nez
- German: auflegen
- Italian: riagganciare, riattaccare
- Portuguese: desligar
- Russian: класть трубка
- Spanish: colgar, cortar
- Italian: tenere in sospeso, tenere in attesa, tenere sulle spine, rimuginare
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