hanged
Swung from rope
Hanged is the past tense of hang when referring to execution or suicide by suspension from the neck: The murderer was hanged at dawn.
For all other meanings of hang, the past tense is hung: pictures are hung, coats are hung, juries are hung.
The distinction is fading in casual speech, but hanged remains standard in legal and formal contexts when death is involved.
Execution hanging apparatus
- nooseLoop that constricts
- scaffoldTemporary elevated work structure
- gibbetExecution display structure
- ropeThick twisted fibers
trapdoor · executioner · condemned · capital punishment · death sentence · public execution · drop · neck
Disorderly, aggressive crowd
- vigilanteExtralegal justice-seeker
- treeWoody perennial plant
- ropeThick twisted fibers
- racial violenceHarm motivated by ethnicity
injustice · murder · terror · Jim Crow · hatred · extrajudicial · victim · memorial
Thick twisted fibers
- beamStructural support member
- rafterSloped roof support
- despairTotal absence of hope
- tragicCausing great sorrow
self-inflicted · discovery · note · closet · belt · door · alone · depression
Betraying one's nation
- pirateMaritime thief or bootlegger
- witch trialsLegal proceedings against alleged sorcerers
- SalemCity or name
- highwaymanMounted thief targeting travelers
public square · Tudor · medieval · crime · punishment · outlaw · heretic · Tower
Anxious uncertainty about outcomes
- cliffhangerSuspenseful unresolved ending
- abandonedLeft behind completely
- betrayedViolated someone's trust
- scapegoatUnfairly blamed person
blamed · sacrificed · exposed · vulnerable · set up · fall guy · accountability · consequences
gallows
Execution hanging apparatus
rope · trapdoor · executioner · condemned · capital punishment · death sentence · public execution · drop · neck · strangled
mob
Disorderly, aggressive crowd
racial violence · injustice · murder · terror · Jim Crow · hatred · extrajudicial · victim · memorial · Emmett Till
rope
Thick twisted fibers
tragic · self-inflicted · discovery · note · closet · belt · door · alone · depression · prevention
treason
Betraying one's nation
- pirateMaritime thief or bootlegger
- witch trialsLegal proceedings against alleged sorcerers
- SalemCity or name
highwayman · public square · Tudor · medieval · crime · punishment · outlaw · heretic · Tower · regicide
suspense
Anxious uncertainty about outcomes
- cliffhangerSuspenseful unresolved ending
- abandonedLeft behind completely
- betrayedViolated someone's trust
scapegoat · blamed · sacrificed · exposed · vulnerable · set up · fall guy · accountability · consequences
- killedkilled, murdered, slain, assassinated, executed
- grammar debatesirregardless, ain't, split infinitive, singular they, could of
hangedbeheaded
Had head removed
electrocuted · shot · guillotined · lethal injection · gassed
- hang onWait or persist
- hang upEnd telephone conversation
- hang outSpend time idly together
- hanging outCasual socializing
- hang in thereEndure through difficulty
- hanging aroundRemaining somewhere idly
hang, hanging, hanger, hangout, hangs, hangers, overhanging, hanger-on