If you dangle a shoelace in front of my cat, she'll play with it.
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Dangle
/ˈdæŋ.ɡl̩/
Synonyms for "dangle" (144 found)
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Related words (72)
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2 entriesTranslations
41 translations across 22 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- luhat verb (hang loosely)
Arabic
2 entries- تَدَلَّى verb (hang loosely)
- تَهَدَّلَ verb (hang loosely)
Bulgarian
1 entries- вися verb (hang loosely)
Catalan
1 entries- penjar verb (hang loosely)
Dutch
2 entries- bengelen verb (hang loosely)
- bungelen verb (hang loosely)
Esperanto
1 entries- pendeti verb (hang loosely)
Finnish
4 entries- riippua verb (hang loosely)
- riiputtaa verb (hang loosely)
- roikkua verb (hang loosely)
- roikottaa verb (hang loosely)
French
2 entries- pendouiller verb (hang loosely)
- pendre verb (hang loosely)
Galician
3 entries- colgar verb (hang loosely)
- pender verb (hang loosely)
- pendurar verb (hang loosely)
German
1 entries- baumeln verb (hang loosely)
Hungarian
3 entries- csüng verb (hang loosely)
- fityeg verb (hang loosely)
- lóbál verb (hang loosely)
Italian
1 entries- penzolare verb (hang loosely)
Māori
4 entries- tautau verb (hang loosely)
- tāewa verb (hang loosely)
- tārewa verb (hang loosely)
- tārewarewa verb (hang loosely)
Portuguese
2 entries- pender verb (hang loosely)
- pendurar verb (hang loosely)
Romanian
2 entries- bălăbăni verb (hang loosely)
- legăna verb (hang loosely)
Russian
3 entries- болтаться verb (hang loosely)
- висе́ть verb (hang loosely)
- кача́ться verb (hang loosely)
Spanish
1 entries- pender verb (hang loosely)
Telugu
1 entries- వ్రేలాడు verb (hang loosely)
Tocharian B
1 entries- länk- verb (hang loosely)
Ukrainian
1 entries- теліпа́тися verb (hang loosely)
Venetan
1 entries- pindoƚar verb (hang loosely)
Vietnamese
2 entries- lủng lẳng verb (hang loosely)
- treo verb (hang loosely)
Sample sentences
17 total sentences available.
Dangle a string in front of the cat to see whether it's asleep.
Source: tatoeba (8860344)
The American Museum of Natural History’s “Creatures of Light” exhibit features jellyfish that glow green, anglerfish whose lantern-like bulbs dangle from their foreheads and luminous glowworms that hang mucus-like strands from cave ceilings to attract and ensnare their prey.
Source: tatoeba (11200179)
His feet are dangling in the water.
Source: wiktionary
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