EGAVE

dangle

About 0.33 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. verb To hang loosely with the ability to swing.
    His feet are dangling in the water.
  2. verb The action of performing a move or deke with the puck in order to get past a defender or goalie; perhaps because of the resemblance to dangling the puck on a string.
    He dangled around three players and the goalie to score.
  3. verb To hang or trail something loosely.
    I like to sit on the edge and dangle my feet in the water.
  4. verb To put forth as a possibility.
  5. verb To trail or follow around.
  6. verb Of a patient: to be positioned with the legs hanging over the edge of the bed.
  7. verb To position (a patient) in this way.
  8. noun An agent of one intelligence agency or group who pretends to be interested in defecting or turning to another intelligence agency or group.

Similar words

swing drop hang erode undermine suspend loll swingle flow dangle after

Often followed by

from in the a over on before at and

Word family

dangled dangler danglers dangles dangling

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