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English to English adjective
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Requiring, deserving, or foreboding death by the halter. |  | source: webster1913 noun
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decoration that is hung (as a tapestry) on a wall or over a window | | Example: the cold castle walls were covered with hangings
source: wordnet30
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a form of capital punishment; victim is suspended by the neck from a gallows or gibbet until dead | | Example: in those days the hanging of criminals was a public entertainment
source: wordnet30
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the act of suspending something (hanging it from above so it moves freely) | | Example: there was a small ceremony for the hanging of the portrait
source: wordnet30
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The act of suspending anything; the state of being suspended. | | source: webster1913
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