hang up

See also: hangup and hang-up

EnglishEdit

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

(transitive) To put up to hang.
I hung up my wash on the line.
(intransitive, idiomatic) To terminate a telephone call.
When my mother started telling me to be careful over the phone, I threatened to hang up on her.
To keep delayed, suspended, held up, or stuck.

put up to hang

terminate a phone call

Asturian: colgar
Catalan: penjar (ca)
Chinese:
Cantonese: cut線 (kat¹ sin³)

Mandarin: 掛斷 (zh) (電話 (zh)), 挂断 (zh) (guàduàn) (电话 (zh) (diànhuà))
Czech: zavěsit
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)
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)
Swedish: lägga på (sv)

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