hang up

== English == === Pronunciation === === Verb === hang up (third-person singular simple present hangs up, present participle hanging up, simple past and past participle hung up) (transitive) To put up to hang. (intransitive, idiomatic) To terminate a telephone call, originally by hanging the receiver on its hook or cradle thereby automatically disconnecting the line. Synonym: ring off Antonym: pick up the phone (intransitive, figurative) To stop talking. To keep delayed, suspended, held up, or stuck. To rob or mug (someone). To arrest (someone); to send (someone) to prison. To quit (something); to give up or stop doing (something); to abandon (something). To distress, disadvantage or harm (someone). ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === See also === hung up ring off === Anagrams === uphang