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Synonyms for hang upon
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : hang |
| Phonetic Transcription : hæŋ |
Top 10 synonyms for hang upon
Définition of hang upon
Origin :- a fusion of Old English hon "suspend" (transitive, class VII strong verb; past tense heng, past participle hangen), and Old English hangian (weak, intransitive, past tense hangode) "be suspended;" also probably influenced by Old Norse hengja "suspend," and hanga "be suspended." All from Proto-Germanic *khang- (cf. Old Frisian hangia, Dutch hangen, German hängen), from PIE *kank- "to hang" (cf. Gothic hahan, Hittite gang- "to hang," Sanskrit sankate "wavers," Latin cunctari "to delay;" see also second element in Stonehenge). As a method of execution, in late Old English (but originally specifically of crucifixion).
- Hung emerged as past participle 16c. in northern England dialect, and hanged endured only in legal language (which tends to be conservative) and metaphors extended from it (I'll be hanged). Teen slang sense of "spend time" first recorded 1951; hang around "idle, loiter" is from 1830, and hang out (v.) is from 1811. Hang fire (1781) was originally used of guns that were slow in communicating the fire through the vent to the charge. To let it all hang out "be relaxed and uninhibited" is from 1967.
- As in hinge on : verb depend
- Think, for a moment, of the tremendous issues which hang upon it!
- Extract from : « The Destroyer » by Burton Egbert Stevenson
- It is not too much to say that peace or war may hang upon the issue.
- Extract from : « The Return of Sherlock Holmes » by Arthur Conan Doyle
- All his fortunes for the future appeared to hang upon the result.
- Extract from : « Little By Little » by William Taylor Adams
- But they did not form in heavy blocks or hang upon the mountain summits.
- Extract from : « New Italian sketches » by John Addington Symonds
- I hang upon your words, Madame, yet I do not understand them.
- Extract from : « Clair de Lune » by Michael Strange
- That daughter is the apple of your eye; you hang upon her with your whole heart and soul.
- Extract from : « Love and Intrigue » by Friedrich Schiller
- All this to hang upon Molly's own desire to make the change.
- Extract from : « Rimrock Trail » by J. Allan Dunn
- My own life and the lives of many others may now hang upon a few moments.
- Extract from : « Remember the Alamo » by Amelia E. Barr
- The whole interest of the Beggar's Opera may be said to hang upon it.
- Extract from : « The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb » by Charles Lamb
- They are a much better lot, he said, than the leeches who used to hang upon me.
- Extract from : « Nasby in Exile » by David R. Locke
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