HUNG (AROUND) Synonyms: 60 Similar and Opposite Words

hung around

verb

past tense of hang around

as in remained

to continue to be in a place for a significant amount of time if you hang around until my husband gets home, you can meet him

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Recent Examples of hung around The Tigers hung around and cut the deficit to five, 84-79, when senior Jordan Crawford hit a 3 with less than two minutes remaining. — Pj Green, Kansas City Star, 30 Oct. 2026 Montano hung around the net and was rewarded with the game-winning goal with 14 minutes to go as the host Tomcats edged Oswego East 1-0 in a Class 3A East Aurora Sectional semifinal. — Paul Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 28 Oct. 2026 In that out-of-use cooler, two living roaches rather ghoulishly hung around the 17 roach corpses. — David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 22 Oct. 2026 Davis had hung around the basketball team, which included moments in the locker room with Miles. — Scott Thompson Outkick, FOXNews.com, 19 Oct. 2026 And then at some point, he was put in an ambulance, which took him away, and then the soldiers hung around for a bit. — Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2026 The bridal bedchamber featured a white angora carpet and sheer white draperies that hung around the walls. — Literary Hub, 14 Oct. 2026 Blocks from the main entrance to Southern University A&M, a small crowd hung around a convenience store, but people were unwilling to talk about politics, eyeing strangers suspiciously. — Gary Fields, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2026 The chip of bone was placed in a circular container called a reliquary and hung around the saint’s neck. — Clare Whitton, The Conversation, 17 Sep. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for hung around

Verb

The pickup truck driver remained at the scene and was cooperating with investigators, Monroe said.

— Daniel Hunt, Sacbee.com, 3 Nov. 2026
Regardless, Republican Sam Matthews, an at-times independent voter who dropped into the Ohio GOP bus tour launch party in Strongsville, remained adamant Democrats continued to be too extreme for most of the electorate.

— Naomi Lim, The Washington Examiner, 3 Nov. 2026

Definition of remained

Verb

Instead of insisting on playing through pressure, defenders cleared the ball when necessary, stayed compact and protected a narrow lead.

— Eddie Brown, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Nov. 2026
In places where the lines stayed unchanged, like Indiana and Pennsylvania and New Jersey and New York, GOP incumbents lost.

— New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 6 Nov. 2026

Definition of stayed

Verb

The attack in Komyshuvakha, near the front line in the Zaporizhzhia region, struck as residents waited for humanitarian aid.

— Derek Gatopoulos, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2026
One would be forgiven for assuming that, as a friend of his joked, Carrère had waited to visit the country until a member of his family was running it.

— Madeleine Wulfahrt, New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2026

Definition of waited

Verb

About 20 people stuck around, through the first city council meeting and into the second, committee of the whole meeting, to offer their views on possibly forcing developers to include affordable housing units on residential developments.

— Jesse Wright, Chicago Tribune, 6 Nov. 2026
Watching Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and the rest of the Peanuts gang celebrate the holiday is another seasonal ritual that has stuck around for generations.

— Jessica Safavimehr, Southern Living, 6 Nov. 2026