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hangs fire

phrase , present tense third-person singular of hang fire

Synonyms and Antonyms of hangs fire

to move or act slowly

He asked his team to hang fire until he was ready.

Synonyms of hangs fire

crawls, creeps, dallies, dawdles, delays, diddles, dillydallies, drags, lags, lingers, loiters, lollygags (also lallygags), mopes, pokes, shilly-shallies, tarries

Words Related to hangs fire

fiddles (around), fools around, messes around, monkeys (around), plays, potters (around), putters (around), trifles

hangs (around or out), idles, loafs, lolls, lounges

ambles, eases, inches, lumbers, plods, saunters, shuffles, staggers, strolls

decelerates, slows (down or up)

filibusters, procrastinates, stalls, temporizes

Phrases Synonymous with hangs fire

drags one's feet (also drags one's heels), drops behind, falls behind, marks time, takes one's time

Near Antonyms of hangs fire

bowls, breezes, darts, humps, hurtles, hustles, scrambles, stampedes

gallops, jogs, runs, sprints, trots

accelerates, quickens, speeds (up)

catches up, fast-forwards, outpaces, outruns, outstrips, overtakes

Antonyms of hangs fire

barrels, bolts, careers, courses, dashes, flies, hastens, hotfoots (it), hurries, races, rips, rockets, runs, rushes, scoots, scuds, scurries, speeds, tears, whirls, whisks, whizzes, zips

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