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hanged

verbadjectivecommon in dialogue

  • //ˈhæŋd//
  • //ˈheɪ̯ŋd//
  • //ˈhɛ̃ŋd//

damned (as an intensifier or vehement denial)

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of hangsimple past and past participle of hang (now only when referring to the method of execution, elsewhere hung is used)

    The Londoners seeing that they could get no vantage against the duke, who was without their reach, to bewreak their anger they took his arms, which in most despiteful wise they hanged up in the open places of the city in sign of reproach, as for a traitor; […]

adjective

  1. 1

    informaldamned (as an intensifier or vehement denial)

    I'm hanged if I know how to get the idea through his thick skull!

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Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).