hang up

See also: hangup and hang-up

English

Pronunciation

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Verb

hang up (third-person singular simple present hangs up, present participle hanging up, simple past and past participle hung up)

1. (transitive) To put up to hang.

   I hung up my wash on the line.

2. (intransitive, idiomatic) To terminate a telephone call, originally by hanging the receiver on its hook or cradle thereby automatically disconnecting the line.

   When my mother started telling me to be careful over the phone, I threatened to hang up on her.

   • 1974, Harry Chapin and Sandra Chapin (lyrics and music), “Cat's in the Cradle”, in Verities & Balderdash, performed by Harry Chapin:

     And as I hung up the phone, it occurred to me
     He'd grown up just like me
     My boy was just like me.

3. To keep delayed, suspended, held up, or stuck.

Synonyms

• (terminate a phone call): release (a call from), put the phone down (on); ring off

Translations

put up to hang

• Ainu: アッテ (atte)
• Arabic: عَلَّقَ (ʕallaqa)
• Asturian: colgar
• Catalan: penjar (ca)
• Cherokee: (long object) ᎬᏙᏌᏗᎠ (gvdosadia)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 掛／挂 (zh) (guà)

• Czech: pověsit pf
• Finnish: ripustaa (fi)
• French: suspendre (fr)
• Galician: colgar (gl)
• Georgian: ჩამოკიდება (čamoḳideba)
• German: aufhängen (de)
• Hungarian: felakaszt (hu)
• Icelandic: hengja (is)
• Ido: pendar (io)
• Ingrian: ripustaa, löövvä
• Italian: appendere (it)
• Japanese: 掛ける (ja) (かける, kakeru)
• Latin: suspendō
• Maori: houtāwere, whakahīweka, whakairi, whakatārawa
• Norwegian: la på røret, legge på
• Ottoman Turkish: آصمق (asmak)
• Portuguese: pendurar (pt)
• Romanian: agăța (ro), atârna (ro)
• Russian: ве́шать (ru) impf (véšatʹ), пове́сить (ru) pf (povésitʹ)
• Spanish: colgar (es)
• Swedish: hänga upp
• Turkish: asmak (tr)

terminate a phone call

• Arabic: أَغْلَقَ الْخَطّ (ʔaḡlaqa al-ḵaṭṭ)
• Asturian: colgar
• Catalan: penjar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 掛斷／挂断 (gwaa³ tyun⁵), cut線／cut线 (kat¹ sin³)

  Mandarin: 掛斷／挂断 (zh) (guàduàn) (電話／电话 (zh) (diànhuà)), 挂断 (zh) (guàduàn) (电话 (zh) (diànhuà))

• Czech: zavěsit pf
• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Faroese: leggja á
• Finnish: katkaista (fi), sulkea puhelin, lopettaa puhelu, katkaista puhelu
• French: raccrocher (fr), raccrocher au nez (fr)
• Galician: colgar (gl)
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: auflegen (de)
• Hungarian: letesz (hu), kinyom (hu)
• Icelandic: leggja á, skella á
• Italian: riagganciare, riattaccare
• Japanese: 電話を切る (でんわをきる, denwa o kiru)
• Kazakh: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: 전화를 끊다 (jeonhwareul kkeunta)
• Luxembourgish: anhänken
• Polish: odkładać (pl) impf słuchawkę, odłożyć (pl) pf słuchawkę
• Portuguese: desligar (pt)
• Romanian: închide (ro)
• Russian: класть тру́бку impf (klastʹ trúbku), положи́ть тру́бку pf (položítʹ trúbku), ве́шать тру́бку impf (véšatʹ trúbku), пове́сить тру́бку pf (povésitʹ trúbku)
• Spanish: colgar (es), cortar (es)
• Swahili: -kata simu
• Swedish: lägga på (sv)
• Turkish: kapatmak (tr)

emotionally trouble

• Finnish: vaivata (fi)
• Italian: tenere in sospeso, tenere in attesa, tenere sulle spine, rimuginare (it)
• Japanese: 弱らせる (ja) (よわせる、yowaseru)

See also

• hung up
• ring off

Anagrams

• uphang