Meanings (ES + gloss)
colgarse
To be or remain suspended.
On the dark-green walls hung a series of eight engravings, portraits of early Victorian belles, clad in lace and tarletan ball dresses, clipped from an old Book of Beauty. Mrs. Bun…
The lights hung from the ceiling.
colgar
To cause (something) to be suspended, as from a hook, hanger, hinges, or the like.
Hang those lights from the ceiling.
to hang a door
aforcar • ahorcar • colgar • enforcar (desus.) • enhorcar (desus.)
To kill (someone) by suspension from the neck, usually as a form of execution or suicide.
'[…] There's every Staffordshire crime-piece ever made in this cabinet, and that's unique. The Van Hoyer Museum in New York hasn't that very rare second version of Maria Marten's R…
The culprits were hanged from the nearest tree.
colgar • colgarse
To cause (a program or computer) to stop responding.
The program has a bug that can hang the system.
Phrases
I'll be hangedbehangforhanggive a dog a bad name and hang himgive someone enough rope and they'll hang themselfgo hanghang a Louiehang a Ralphhang a lefthang a leghang a righthang a shinglehang a ueyhang abouthang an arsehang aroundhang backhang behindhang by a hairhang by a threadhang by the eyelidshang doghang firehang fivehang glidehang gliderhang glidinghang heavyhang inhang in the balancehang in therehang ithang loosehang lowhang mehang offhang onhang on every wordhang one onhang one's hat