pendre — meaning in English
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English meaning
- bag noun A flexible container, often with an opening at the top, used to hold or carry items.
- dangle verb To hang loosely, swinging freely.
- depend verb To rely on someone or something for support, help, or a particular outcome.
- hang verb To attach something at the top so it hangs down freely, or to be suspended in this way.
- swing verb To move back and forth or in a circular path while hanging from a fixed point.
Senses
pendre is used for these senses in English:
- bag To hang like an empty bag.
- bag (obsolete, ambitransitive) To (cause to) swell or hang down like a full bag.
- depend (now, literary, heraldry) To hang down; to be sustained by being fastened or attached to something above, especially in heraldry, where a badge, decoration, or element is suspended from another part of an achievement of arms.
- hang (intransitive) To be or remain suspended.
- hang (intransitive, legal) To be executed by suspension by one's neck from a gallows, a tree, or other raised bar, attached by a rope tied into a noose.
- hang (intransitive, informal) To loiter; to hang around; to spend time idly.
- hang (transitive, chess) To cause (a piece) to become vulnerable to capture.
- swing (intransitive) To hang from the gallows; to be punished by hanging, swing for something or someone; (often hyperbolic) to be severely punished.
bag — full definition
- noun A flexible container, often with an opening at the top, used to hold or carry items.
- verb To put something into a bag, or more broadly, to succeed in getting or catching something.
dangle — full definition
- verb To hang loosely, swinging freely.
- verb To offer something as an enticing possibility.