List of antonyms from "handwritings the wall" to antonyms from "hang onto"
Discover our 519 antonyms available for the terms "hang by a thread, hang in, hang of it, hang crepe, hang it up" and many more. Click on one of the words below and go directly to the antonyms associated with it.
- Handwritings the wall (1 antonym)
- Handwritings wall (1 antonym)
- Handy (19 antonyms)
- Hang (13 antonyms)
- Hang a left (6 antonyms)
- Hang a right (6 antonyms)
- Hang about (1 antonym)
- Hang about/hang around/hang out (1 antonym)
- Hang around with (21 antonyms)
- Hang by a thread (13 antonyms)
- Hang crepe (11 antonyms)
- Hang down (44 antonyms)
- Hang easy (18 antonyms)
- Hang fire (51 antonyms)
- Hang in (111 antonyms)
- Hang it up (58 antonyms)
- Hang-loose (22 antonyms)
- Hang loose (52 antonyms)
- Hang of it (9 antonyms)
- Hang off (1 antonym)
- Hang on (6 antonyms)
- Hang on words (13 antonyms)
- Hang one's hat (27 antonyms)
- Hang onto (14 antonyms)
Definition of the day : « hang fire »
- As in postpone : verb put off till later time
- As in procrastinate : verb delay, put off doing
- As in stymie : verb frustrate, hinder
- As in suspend : verb delay, hold off
- As in hang back : verb be reluctant
- As in defer : verb hold off, put off
- It 's one thing to say she 's a wife: you hang fire when it 's to say she 's my sister-in-law.'
- Extract from : « Lord Ormont and his Aminta, Complete » by George Meredith
- If a dnouement seems to hang fire, hasten its progress by a thrashing.
- Extract from : « The Heritage of Dress » by Wilfred Mark Webb
- Well, you see—such things are often apt to hang fire for a long time.
- Extract from : « Hedda Gabler » by Henrik Ibsen
- For Marianne seemed to hang fire and hesitate over her departure.
- Extract from : « It Never Can Happen Again » by William De Morgan
- The answer was sharp, yet seemed, as soldiers say, to "hang fire" a second.
- Extract from : « Ray's Daughter » by Charles King
- If Ashley were to hang fire you wouldn't know where the devil you were.
- Extract from : « The Street Called Straight » by Basil King
- It seems to have that quality of mystery that belongs to all affairs of the kind when they hang fire.
- Extract from : « The Quality of Mercy » by W. D. Howells
- His inventions seemed to hang fire until introduced into Lancashire, when they were adopted by a Mr. Peel, Arkwright and others.
- Extract from : « The Story of the Cotton Plant » by Frederick Wilkinson
- If I put off writing the paper you asked me for, till I can do it conveniently, it may hang fire till this time next year.
- Extract from : « On the Old Road, Vol. 2 (of 2) » by John Ruskin
- We brushed up and watched the first signs of dawn through an open port; but the day seemed to hang fire.
- Extract from : « The Maine Woods » by Henry David Thoreau