hang up

See also: hangup and hang-up

English

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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.

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

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

Synonyms

• (terminate a phone call): release a call

Translations

put up to hang

• Asturian: colgar
• Catalan: penjar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 掛 (zh) (guà)

• Czech: pověsit
• Finnish: ripustaa (fi)
• French: suspendre (fr)
• Galician: colgar (gl)
• German: aufhängen (de)
• Hungarian: felakaszt (hu)
• Icelandic: hengja (is)

• Ido: pendar (io)
• Italian: appendere (it)
• Japanese: 掛ける (ja) (かける, kakeru)
• Latin: suspendō
• Maori: houtāwere, whakahīweka, whakairi
• Norwegian: la på røret, legge på
• Portuguese: pendurar (pt)
• Romanian: agăța (ro), atârna (ro)
• Russian: ве́шать (ru) impf (véšatʹ), пове́сить (ru) pf (povésitʹ)
• Spanish: colgar (es)
• Swedish: hänga upp

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
• 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)

emotionally trouble

• Finnish: vaivata (fi)
• Italian: tenere in sospeso, tenere in attesa, tenere sulle spine, rimuginare (it)

• Japanese: 弱らせる (よわせる、yowaseru)

See also

• hung up
• ring off

Anagrams

• uphang