as in bowing
bending downward or forward
stood penitently before the judge with a hung head while he received his sentence
Synonyms & Similar Words
Relevance
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
variants
also hanged
1
as in slung
to place on an elevated point without support from below
hang your coats on the coat rack in the hall
Synonyms & Similar Words
2
3
as in slumped
to be limp from lack of water or vigor
as they neared the end of the long, hard march all but the most hardy were hanging, and some could barely put one foot in front of the other
Synonyms & Similar Words
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
4
as in hovered
to rest or move along the surface of a liquid or in the air
hanging just above the horizon was a little pink cloud
Synonyms & Similar Words
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
5
as in based
to find a basis
that's very slim evidence upon which to hang a theory
Synonyms & Similar Words
Example Sentences
Examples are automatically compiled from online sources to
show current usage.
Read More
Opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors.
Send us feedback.
Recent Examples of hung
Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 July 2025
However, Boreman and Remmert agreed that people shouldn’t get too hung up on the numbers.
—Brian Mastroianni, Health, 9 July 2025
Keith Langston, PEOPLE, 11 Oct. 2025
Dark clouds and questions about Lionel Messi’s availability hung over Inter Miami’s training session Friday morning as the team prepared for its regular-season home finale Saturday against Atlanta United.
—Michelle Kaufman, Miami Herald, 10 Oct. 2025
See All Example Sentences for hung
Adjective
Cease got right back to being nasty, setting down the next four batters before his first pitch to Eugenio Suarez, a slider hung belt-high on the outer portion of the plate, was hit high and landed just beyond the left field wall.
—Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 July 2025
However, Boreman and Remmert agreed that people shouldn’t get too hung up on the numbers.
—Brian Mastroianni, Health, 9 July 2025
Verb
Worden’s body had been decapitated, gutted and hung by its feet like a deer.
—Keith Langston, PEOPLE, 11 Oct. 2025
Dark clouds and questions about Lionel Messi’s availability hung over Inter Miami’s training session Friday morning as the team prepared for its regular-season home finale Saturday against Atlanta United.
—Michelle Kaufman, Miami Herald, 10 Oct. 2025
See All Example Sentences for hung
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hung
Verb
-
Ace holds center stage, knees bent, slung low to the ground, brandishing his Gibson while Gene and Paul preen on either side of him.—
Rob Sheffield,
Rolling Stone,
17 Oct. 2025
-
And then a few Tech fans come along this weekend with their old, crusty roller brush and slung it all over the place, Jackson Pollock-style, only this isn’t a work of art.—
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
14 Oct. 2025
Verb
-
Having lost four of five matches entering the night, San Jose needed to win and depended on three other outcomes.—
Evan Webeck,
Mercury News,
19 Oct. 2025
-
Additional labs were drawn to rule out less serious causes, but answers ultimately depended on the biopsy results.—
Tereza Shkurtaj,
PEOPLE,
18 Oct. 2025
Verb
-
Medical assistants from Nepal, Myanmar, Somalia, and Afghanistan greeted patients; the average wait time hovered around 10 minutes.—
Helen Ouyang,
The Atlantic,
21 Oct. 2025
-
Lately, its stock price has hovered around a thousand dollars a share.—
Molly Fischer,
New Yorker,
20 Oct. 2025
Verb
-
The creation of this content included the use of AI based on templates created, reviewed and edited by journalists in the newsroom.—
CA Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
17 Oct. 2025
-
Eventually, general manager Stan Bowman will need to make a decision on a defenceman, and the most likely scenario (based on contract, asset cost and deployment by the coaching staff) sees Stecher traded or waived.—
Allan Mitchell,
New York Times,
17 Oct. 2025
Adjective
-
James O’Donoghue, a planetary scientist with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, likened our planet’s tilting phenomenon to a nodding head.—
Aylin Woodward,
WSJ,
21 Dec. 2021
Verb
-
The trees had already been felled and piled by the landowner; the log piles were initially slated to be burned to reduce the fire hazard.—
Syris Valentine,
Scientific American,
16 Oct. 2025
-
Grainier‘s an itinerant lumber man who worked the Pacific Northwest at the turn of the 20th century, felling timber and building railroads.—
Baz Bamigboye,
Deadline,
14 Oct. 2025
Verb
-
Since Hereditary floated into theaters in 2018, writer-director Ari Aster has evolved his interests considerably, from the sunny folk-horror of Midsommar (2019) to the phantasmagoric Beau Is Afraid (2023) to the social thriller Eddington (2025).—
Gwen Ihnat,
Entertainment Weekly,
18 Oct. 2025
-
Richie and Paris said in an interview with Glamour last year that their parents weren't on board when the idea for The Simple Life was first floated.—
Nicholas Rice,
PEOPLE,
18 Oct. 2025
Verb
-
His ability to throw precise, on-time passes suits a Jets offense that is predicated on timing and accuracy.—
Andrew Wright,
MSNBC Newsweek,
16 Oct. 2025
-
However, the possibility of that rally continuing was predicated on stability in geopolitical risk, especially on trade.—
Yeo Boon Ping,
CNBC,
13 Oct. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Hung.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hung. Accessed 22 Oct. 2025.
Copy CitationLove words? Need even more definitions?
Merriam-Webster unabridged
Share