as inThe Hangman game ended quickly; I couldn’t guess the word, and the figure was hanged.For all other senses ofhang, the wordhungis considered the standard form, as inWe hung the laundry on the clotheslineorI hung out
And just because I differentiate between hanged and hung doesn't mean that someone else who doesn't is wrong. There are quite a few newer usages I don't like, so I don't use them. But correct another native speaker's grammar? Never. (Unless they're laying down the law in these ...
The meaning of HANG is to fasten to some elevated point without support from below : suspend. How to use hang in a sentence. Hanged vs. Hung: Usage Guide
Speakers and writers who value precision know that the past tense of hang, when it means “to put to death using a rope,” is hanged, rather than hung. This applies to both the active and passive voice: They hanged the prisoner and The prisoner was hanged. For inanimate objects, use hu...