What (who) is hanging - definition
DEATH BY SUSPENSION OF A PERSON BY A NOOSE OR LIGATURE AROUND THE NECK
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![The Hanging of the [[Harper Seven]], Liberia – 16 February 1979](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/ASC Leiden - F. van der Kraaij Collection - The Hanging of the Harper Seven, Liberia - 16 February 1979 - 03.jpg?width=200 "The Hanging of the [[Harper Seven]], Liberia – 16 February 1979")
![Anoxic brain injury]] following a hanging. The loss of grey white matter differentiation and small ventricles due to brain swelling are visible.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Anoxicbraininjury.png?width=200 "Anoxic brain injury]] following a hanging. The loss of grey white matter differentiation and small ventricles due to brain swelling are visible.")
![Execution of guards and kapos of the [[Stutthof concentration camp]] on 4 July 1946 by short-drop hanging. In the foreground were the female overseers: [[Jenny-Wanda Barkmann]], [[Ewa Paradies]], [[Elisabeth Becker]], [[Wanda Klaff]], [[Gerda Steinhoff]] (left to right)](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Biskupia Gorka executions - 14 - Barkmann, Paradies, Becker, Klaff, Steinhoff (left to right).jpg?width=200 "Execution of guards and kapos of the [[Stutthof concentration camp]] on 4 July 1946 by short-drop hanging. In the foreground were the female overseers: [[Jenny-Wanda Barkmann]], [[Ewa Paradies]], [[Elisabeth Becker]], [[Wanda Klaff]], [[Gerda Steinhoff]] (left to right)")
![''A Man Hung Alive by the Ribs to a Gallows'' by [[William Blake]]. Originally published in Stedman's ''Narrative''.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Blake after John Gabriel Stedman Narrative of a Five Years copy 2 object 2-detail.jpg?width=200 "''A Man Hung Alive by the Ribs to a Gallows'' by [[William Blake]]. Originally published in Stedman's ''Narrative''.")
![[[Eli Cohen]], publicly hanged by Syria on 18 May 1965](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Eli Cohen.jpg?width=200 "[[Eli Cohen]], publicly hanged by Syria on 18 May 1965")
![The execution of Mary Surratt, Lewis Powell, David Herold, and George Atzerodt, who were all convicted by a [[military tribunal]] for being involved in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, 7 July 1865](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Execution Lincoln assassins.jpg?width=200 "The execution of Mary Surratt, Lewis Powell, David Herold, and George Atzerodt, who were all convicted by a [[military tribunal]] for being involved in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, 7 July 1865")
![The execution of [[Henry Wirz]] in 1865 near the U.S. Capitol; Wirz was given a standard drop, which did not break his neck](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Execution of Henry Wirz.jpg?width=200 "The execution of [[Henry Wirz]] in 1865 near the U.S. Capitol; Wirz was given a standard drop, which did not break his neck")
![[[Suicide]] by hanging](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Giotto - Scrovegni - -47- - Desperation.jpg?width=200 "[[Suicide]] by hanging")
![John Ogilvie]], who in 1615 was hanged and disembowelled after torture for his refusal to give up the Catholic faith and convert to Protestantism](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Hanged, drawn and quartered.jpg?width=200 "John Ogilvie]], who in 1615 was hanged and disembowelled after torture for his refusal to give up the Catholic faith and convert to Protestantism")
![The Great Miseries of War]]''.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Hanging from The Miseries and Misfortunes of War by Jacques Callot.jpg?width=200 "The Great Miseries of War]]''.")
![Mass execution of Serbs by [[Austro-Hungarian army]] in 1916](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Hromadná poprava Srbů.jpg?width=200 "Mass execution of Serbs by [[Austro-Hungarian army]] in 1916")
![Execution of an unidentified Nazi war criminal after [[World War II]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Karl Morgenschweis prays for condemned prisoner.jpg?width=200 "Execution of an unidentified Nazi war criminal after [[World War II]]")
![Sepia-tone photo from a contemporary 1901 postcard showing [[Tom Ketchum]]'s decapitated body. Caption reads "Body of Black Jack after the hanging showing head snapped off."](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/KetchumDecapitated.jpg?width=200 "Sepia-tone photo from a contemporary 1901 postcard showing [[Tom Ketchum]]'s decapitated body. Caption reads \"Body of Black Jack after the hanging showing head snapped off.\"")
![Johann Stumpf]], who witnessed this type of execution in 1553](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Picture of inverted hanging.png?width=200 "Johann Stumpf]], who witnessed this type of execution in 1553")
![A public execution for a man convicted of rape, [[Qarchak]], 26 October 2011.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Public execution for a convicted of rape in Qarchak, Varamin - 26 October 2011 (13900804092511).jpg?width=200 "A public execution for a man convicted of rape, [[Qarchak]], 26 October 2011.")
![The hanging of two participants in the [[Indian Rebellion of 1857]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/The hanging of two participants in the Indian Rebellion of 1857..jpg?width=200 "The hanging of two participants in the [[Indian Rebellion of 1857]]")
![Nazi Germans]] in [[Kraków]] in 1942](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/WWII Krakow - 04.jpg?width=200 "Nazi Germans]] in [[Kraków]] in 1942")
![An image of suspected [[witch]]es being hanged in England, published in 1655.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Witches Being Hanged.jpg?width=200 "An image of suspected [[witch]]es being hanged in England, published in 1655.")
hanging
n.
1.
Suspension.
2.
Death by the halter, death on the gallows.
Hanging
·noun Death by suspension; execution by a halter.
II. Hanging ·adj Suspended from above; pendent; as, hanging shelves.
III. Hanging ·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of Hang.
IV. Hanging ·adj Requiring, deserving, or foreboding death by the halter.
V. Hanging ·noun The act of suspending anything; the state of being suspended.
VI. Hanging ·adj Adapted for sustaining a hanging object; as, the hanging post of a gate, the post which holds the hinges.
VII. Hanging ·noun That which is hung as lining or drapery for the walls of a room, as tapestry, paper, ·etc., or to cover or drape a door or window;
- used chiefly in the plural.
hanging
(hangings)
A hanging is a large piece of cloth that you put as a decoration on a wall.
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Hanging
Hanging is killing a person by suspending them from the neck with a noose or ligature. Hanging has been a common method of capital punishment since the Middle Ages, and is the primary execution method in numerous countries and regions. The first known account of execution by hanging is in Homer's Odyssey. Hanging is also a method of suicide.
The past and past participle of hang in this sense is hanged rather than hung.
Pronunciation examples for hanging
1. Even hanging-- like hanging.
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2. hanging.
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3. I'm hanging.
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4. Hanging out.
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5. hanging chads.
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Examples of use of hanging
1. Like Sandra said, hanging is not a common method and all of them chose hanging, why?
2. Meat comes here in hanging form and it is stored here hanging.
3. There is no better way of hanging on to a lead than hanging on to the ball.
4. In some ways we are just hanging on by our fingertips, but we have to keep hanging on.
5. "Kids hanging around street corners," said another.