What part of speech is dangle?

Dangle can be categorized as a noun and a verb.

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Parts of speech

  • 1. dangle is a verb, present, 1st person singular of dangle (infinitive).
  • 2. dangle is a verb (infinitive).
  • 3. dangle is a noun, singular of dangles.

Inflections

Verb

Noun

What does dangle mean?

Definitions

Verb

dangle - hang freely; "the ornaments dangled from the tree"; "The light dropped from the ceiling"
dangle - cause to dangle or hang freely; "He dangled the ornaments from the Christmas tree"

Noun

dangle - An agent of one intelligence agency or group who pretends to be interested in defecting or turning to another intelligence agency or group.
dangle - The action of dangling; a series of complex stick tricks and fakes in order to defeat the defender in style.

Examples of dangle

#   Sentence  
1. verb If you dangle a shoelace in front of my cat, she'll play with it.
2. verb Dangle a string in front of the cat to see whether it's asleep.
Sentence  
verb
If you dangle a shoelace in front of my cat, she'll play with it.
Dangle a string in front of the cat to see whether it's asleep.

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