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Hang up
verb
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Verb
- 1 To put up to hang. transitive
"I hung up my wash on the line."
- 2 interrupt a telephone conversation wordnet
- 3 To terminate a telephone call, originally by hanging the receiver on its hook or cradle thereby automatically disconnecting the line. idiomatic, intransitive
"When my mother started telling me to be careful over the phone, I threatened to hang up on her."
- 4 put a telephone receiver back in its cradle wordnet
- 5 To stop talking. figuratively, intransitive
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- 6 cause to be hanging or suspended wordnet
- 7 To keep delayed, suspended, held up, or stuck.
- 8 To rob or mug (someone).
- 9 To arrest (someone); to send (someone) to prison.
"So call up Trudy on the telephone / Send her a letter in the mail / Tell her I'm hung up in Dallas / They won't let me out of this jail"
- 10 To quit (something); to give up or stop doing (something); to abandon (something).
"He hung up the flute after college."
- 11 To distress, disadvantage or harm (someone).
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