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pendurar — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • 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.

Senses

pendurar is used for these senses in English:

  • 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, 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) To exhibit (an object) by hanging.
  • hang (transitive, chess) To cause (a piece) to become vulnerable to capture.
  • hang up (transitive) To put up to hang.

dangle — full definition

  1. verb To hang loosely, swinging freely.
  2. verb To offer something as an enticing possibility.

depend — full definition

  1. verb To rely on someone or something for support, help, or a particular outcome.
  2. verb To vary according to circumstances; used to say an answer isn't fixed.

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