hung on

verb

past tense of hang on
1
as in dug in

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2
as in held on

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hung on
  1. carried on
  2. held on
  3. kept up
  4. hung around
  5. waited
  6. stuck around
  7. awaited
Verb
  • When reporters shouted questions about the bombshell conversation, the future king at the time simply chuckled, remained silent and carried on walking.
    — Stephanie Giang-Paunon, FOXNews.com, 20 Aug. 2026
  • Gibbons and Beard carried on, with Beard occasionally forced off the road by health issues, including an emergency appendectomy in 2002 and unspecified health problems that temporarily sidelined him in 2025.
    — SPIN Staff, SPIN, 18 Aug. 2026
Definition of carried on
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  • The team didn’t address the position in the draft or free agency, but the organization held on to tackle Cody Ford — who has lost 40 pounds — as a backup while giving him a pay cut.
    — Paul Dehner Jr, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2026
  • Ewing cut down another from left field moments later, and the New York Mets held on for a 2-1 victory Monday night.
    — CBS New York Team, CBS News, 18 Aug. 2026
Definition of held on
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  • Spain kept up its pressure after halftime, playing some of its most creative soccer of the tournament.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 2 July 2026
  • In the battle for the Texas Senate seat, both Republican nominee Ken Paxton and Democratic nominee James Talarico kept up their attacks against each other.
    — Jack Fink, CBS News, 7 June 2026
Definition of kept up
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  • But that system still hung around for 16 years, until the dawn of the four-team College Football Playoff in 2014.
    — Stewart Mandel, New York Times, 23 June 2026
  • Even some coaches and support staff hung around briefly.
    — Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 11 June 2026
Definition of hung around
Verb
  • Several hours later, I was called into a small room, where an interviewer waited.
    — Ledio Cakaj, New Yorker, 22 Aug. 2026
  • In both cases, the pathologists have waited for the results of toxicology tests, which can take weeks to complete.
    — Dalia Faheid, CNN Money, 21 Aug. 2026
Definition of waited
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  • The same is true for others such as Pintaro, who logged two scoreless innings Friday and stuck around for Saturday.
    — Will Sammon, New York Times, 16 Aug. 2026
  • Benny Stulwicz was not meant to be a series regular, but Larry Drake made such a big impression in the first season that the developmentally disabled office messenger stuck around through the end of the series.
    — Maggie Fremont, Entertainment Weekly, 15 Aug. 2026
Definition of stuck around
Verb
  • This is a vote that asks members of both parties to stand together and vote for a bill that is complicated but that offers so much goodness to a community that has long awaited it.
    — Vanessa Chism, Baltimore Sun, 23 Aug. 2026
  • And there was the personal work that awaited him — the healing, rebuilding and reconnecting that extended well beyond football.
    — Rick Stroud, The Orlando Sentinel, 23 Aug. 2026
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“Hung on.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hung%20on. Accessed 24 Aug. 2026.

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