What is another word for hanging up?

Pronunciation: [hˈaŋɪŋ ˈʌp] (IPA)

Hanging up is a verb phrase that refers to ending a phone conversation by disconnecting the line. There are various synonyms that can be used to replace this phrase, such as disconnecting, terminating, ending, concluding, and finishing the call. Each of these terms is useful in different contexts to describe a different kind of abrupt or polite end to a phone conversation. To clarify the type of hanging up you're doing, you can use different synonyms based on the tone of the conversation. For example, a polite way of hanging up a phone call with someone would be concluding while abrupt good bye if they have been rude or offensive.

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What are the hypernyms for Hanging up?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

What are the opposite words for hanging up?

Hanging up is a term that typically refers to ending a phone call or disconnecting a call. Antonyms for hanging up include answering, picking up or starting a conversation. Although the term is more commonly associated with phone calls, it can also be used to indicate someone giving up or quitting something. Antonyms for this usage of hanging up include persevering, persisting, continuing or carrying on. When it comes to technical terms, "connecting" would be an antonym that immediately comes to mind. Regardless of the context, one of the antonyms of hanging up can always be found to be the exact opposite of this phrase.

What are the antonyms for Hanging up?

Famous quotes with Hanging up

  • I don't believe in email. I'm an old-fashioned girl. I prefer calling and hanging up.
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  • My house is a bit like a teenager's bedroom. The kind of pictures you have hanging up on your wall say a lot about you. I've got ones of Evel Knievel, Elvis and Starsky and Hutch, signed by David Soul.
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  • I saw four manner of dryings: the first was bloodlessness; the second was pain following after; the third, hanging up in the air, as men hang a cloth to dry; the fourth, that the bodily Kind asked liquid and there was no manner of comfort ministered to Him in all His woe and distress. Ah! hard and grievous was his pain, but much more hard and grievous it was when the moisture failed and began to dry thus, shrivelling. These were the pains that shewed in the blessed head: the first wrought to the dying, while it had moisture; and that other, slow, with shrinking drying, with blowing of the wind from without, that dried and pained Him with cold more than mine heart can think. And other pains — for which pains I saw that all is too little that I can say: for it may not be told. The which Shewing of Christ’s pains filled me full of pain. For I wist well He suffered but once, but He would shew it me and fill me with mind as I had afore desired. And in all this time of Christ’s pains I felt no pain but for Christ’s pains. Then thought-me: and, as a wretch, repented me, thinking: For methought it passed bodily death, my pains. I thought: And I was answered in my reason: Here felt I soothfastly that I loved Christ so much above myself that there was no pain that might be suffered like to that sorrow that I had to Him in pain.
    Julian of Norwich

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