hanging

• assuming
• balancing
• ballooning
• basin
• basing
• beetling
• bobbing
• bowed
• bowing
• buoying
• cascading
• collapsing
• crumpling
• dangling
• declension
• decline
• declined
• declining
• declivity
• dependent
• depending
• depression
• descendant
• descendent
• descending
• descent
• dip
• dipping
• downgrade
• downhill
• draping
• drifting
• drooping
• droopy
• dropping
• establishing
• fall
• falling
• fastened to
• festooning
• flagging
• floating
• floppy
• founding
• garlanding
• gliding
• grounding
• hang
• hinging
• hollow
• hooking
• hovering
• hung
• inclining
• jutting
• limp
• lolling
• mounting
• nodding
• overhanging
• pendant
• pendent
• pendulant
• pendulous
• pinning
• poising
• postulating
• predicating
• premising
• presuming
• presupposing
• projecting
• protruding
• rafting
• resting
• riding
• sagging
• sailing
• sinking
• slinging
• slouching
• slumping
• staying
• sticking out
• stooping
• stringing
• subsiding
• supposing
• suspended
• suspending
• swagging
• swaying
• swimming
• swinging
• tacking
• turning
• wafting
• weeping
• wilting
• yielding

• acclivity
• ascent
• dipping
• distending
• diving
• elevated
• erect
• glacis
• grade
• gradient
• hill
• immersing
• inclination
• incline
• inflexible
• lean
• lunging
• pitch
• plunging
• raised
• rake
• rigid
• rise
• rising
• settling
• sinking
• stiff
• stiffening
• straightening
• submerging
• submersing
• tilt
• unbending
• uncurling
• upgrade
• uphill
• upraised
• upright
• uprise

• verb
  1. To be or remain suspended.
  2. To float, as if suspended.
  3. (of a ball in cricket, tennis, etc.) To rebound unexpectedly or unusually slowly, due to backward spin on the ball or imperfections of the ground.
  4. To hold or bear in a suspended or inclined manner or position instead of erect.
  5. To cause (something) to be suspended, as from a hook, hanger, hinges or the like.
  6. To execute (someone) by suspension from the neck.
  7. To be executed by suspension by one's neck from a gallows, a tree, or other raised bar, attached by a rope tied into a noose.
  8. (used in maledictions) To damn.
  9. To loiter, hang around, to spend time idly.
  10. To exhibit (an object) by hanging.
  11. To apply (wallpaper or drywall to a wall).
  12. To decorate (something) with hanging objects.
  13. To remain persistently in one's thoughts.
  14. To prevent from reaching a decision, especially by refusing to join in a verdict that must be unanimous.
  15. To stop responding to manual input devices such as keyboard and mouse.
  16. To cause (a program or computer) to stop responding.
  17. To cause (a piece) to become vulnerable to capture.
  18. To be vulnerable to capture.
  19. Of a pitcher, to throw a hittable off-speed pitch.
• adjective
  1. Suspended.
  2. (of a piece) Unprotected and exposed to capture.
  3. (of an off-speed pitch) Hittable; poorly executed by the pitcher hence relatively easy to hit.
  4. (of a person) ugly; very unattractive.
• noun
  1. The act of hanging a person (or oneself) by the neck in order to kill that person (or to commit suicide).
  2. A sometimes public event at which a person is hanged.
  3. Anything that is hung as a decorative element (such as curtains, gobelins or posters).
  4. The way in which hangings (decorations) are arranged.

• The beautiful hanging plants added a touch of nature to the room.
• I saw a hanging sign at the entrance of the store.
• She was hanging her clothes on the line after washing them.
• The hanging lights created a cozy atmosphere in the garden.
• There was a hanging painting on the wall that caught my attention.

dabbling

dallying

sagging

tacking

wafting

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