French-English translations for pendre

hang
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It is clear that in this area, as in many others, we are often ready to give ourselves enough rope to hang ourselves. Notons qu'en la matière, comme dans d'autres d'ailleurs, nous sommes souvent prêts à acheter la corde qui servira à nous pendre. The president was a dictator who had his opponents hanged from lampposts by his police force, recruited from Italian immigrants. Le président était un dictateur qui avait fait pendre ses opposants aux réverbères par ses forces de police recrutées parmi les immigrés italiens. Nuclear power has been, and remains, a transitional technology, a technology which we will, unfortunately, have to hang onto for decades to come. L'énergie nucléaire a été, et reste, une technologie de transition, une technologie dont nous devrons malheureusement dépendre pour les décennies à venir.
bag
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Acid House is not my bag: I prefer the more traditional styles of musicThe grounder hit the bag and bounced over the fielder’s headHe headed back to the bag

dangleHis feet would dangle in the waterHe dangled around three players and the goalie to scoreI like to sit on the edge and dangle my feet in the water
depend
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This should depend on the dossier. Cela devrait dépendre du dossier. Indeed, our prosperity will depend on immigration. Car notre prospérité va dépendre de l'immigration. That cannot be what it is dependent on, though. Cela ne peut tout de même pas être ce dont il peut dépendre.
hang upI hung up my wash on the line.When my mother started telling me to be careful over the phone, I threatened to hang up on her.
sagA line or cable supported by its ends sags, even if it is tightly drawn.The floor of a room sags.A building may sag one way or another.
string up
swing
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The plant swung in the breeze.The children laughed as they swung.It wasnt long before the crowds mood swung towards restless irritability.