dangle

Speech parts

1. dangle - Noun

2. dangle - Verb

Meaning

To hang loosely, or with a swinging or jerking motion.

To cause to dangle; to swing, as something suspended loosely; as, to dangle the feet.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

drop swing bob sling SAG wag fall jiggle festoon rock offer wave depend drag trail
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Antonyms

bolt attack buck determine crowd push
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Hypernyms

hang suspend

Hyponyms

droop loll

Phrases with the word

sex organs dangle dangle over dangle a carrot dangle from

Derivatives

dangled dangling

Anagrams

angled gladen lagend geland Glenda

Examples

In relation to man and his society, experiment can not dangle on void. It must belong. Belong to man. Ritwik Ghatak

The civilised keep alive The territorial war... Erase the race that claim the place And say we dig for ore, Or dangle devils in a bottle And push them from the pull of the Bush. Kate Bush

I think it would be well, and proper, and obedient, and pure, to grasp your one necessity and not let it go, to dangle from it limp wherever it takes you. Annie Dillard

Whatever you have to say, leave The roots on, let them Dangle And the dirt Just to make clear Where they come from. Charles Olson

He dangled the ornaments from the Christmas tree Source: Internet

the ornaments dangled from the tree Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

dangit Dangla danglable dangle a carrot dangle after dangle over