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/ˈhʌŋ/ · verb
simple past and past participle of hang (except when referring to the method of execution; there, hanged is used instead).
They fructify a barren, and render barren a very luxurious Soil; and, if you will believe them, they’ll tell you the Tree whereon Judas hung himſelf, and more than the Natives know themſelves, or ever ſaw in their own Country.
I am purſuaded, that if even Bradford himſelf, that day, had ventured to check the violence of the people, in any way that was not agreeable to them ; and had betrayed the leaſt partiality for the exciſe law ; or perhaps even a remiſſion of his zeal againſt it, he would have ſunk, in an inſtant, from his power, and they would have hung him on the firſt tree.
A MURDERER HUNG IN TIME SAVES NINE.
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Use hung when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Hung means simple past and past participle of hang (except when referring to the method of execution; there, hanged is used instead).
Common synonyms include macrophallic, adorned, decorated.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
They fructify a barren, and render barren a very luxurious Soil; and, if you will believe them, they’ll tell you the Tree whereon Judas hung himſelf, and more than the Natives know themſelves, or ever ſaw in their own Country.
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