English-Swedish translations for hanging

• hängning en
  Avrättningarna utförs genom hängning.The executions take place by hanging.
  Stening och offentlig hängning är barbariskt.Stoning and public hangings are barbaric.
  Istället ändrades det till avrättning genom hängning för påstådda mord.Instead, it was changed to execution by hanging for alleged murder.
• galgen
• hängande
  Jag har en liten minnestavla hängande i mitt rum.There is a little plaque hanging in my office.
  Herr ordförande! En anmärkning vill jag inte låta bli hängande i luften.There is one comment which I cannot leave hanging in the air, Mr President.
  Jag såg föräldrar som drog barnvagnar med en cigarrett hängande över barnet.There were parents pushing children in buggies, with a cigarette hanging over the child.
• hänge ett

Definition of hanging

• Suspended
• Unprotected and exposed to capture
• ugly; very unattractive
• The act of hanging a person by the neck in order to kill that person (or to commit suicide
• A sometimes public event at which a person is hanged
• Anything that is hung as a decorative element (such as curtains, gobelins or posters
• The way in which hangings are arranged

Examples

• The hanging vines made the house look older than it was.
• hanging breaking ball
• hanging slider
• Hanging is the punishment for one convicted of war crimes, there.
• The hanging of the bandits was attended by the whole village.
• The various hangings on that Christmas tree look nice.
• I dislike the cramped hanging in the gallery of 18th century painters.

Related words

• hangings
• changing
• unchanging
• unchangingly
• climate-changing
• hanging pawns
• hanging loop
• hanging about
• hanging around