hanging
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- A form of capital punishment where a person is held in the air by a rope around his/her neck until they are dead.
- There was a hanging in Carson City.
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- The present participle of hang. To kill by hanging.
- Nebraska is hanging him next week.
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- The present participle of hang. Suspended.
- Your shirt is hanging in the closet.