HANG FIRE

Literature

Military

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Cessation

Verb: cease, discontinue, desist, stay, halt; break off, leave off; hold, stop, pull up, stop short; stick, hang fire; halt; pause, rest; burn out, blow out, melt down.

Failure

Come to nothing, end in smoke; flat out ; fall to the ground, fall through, fall dead, fall stillborn, fall flat; slip through one's fingers; hang fire, miss fire; flash in the pan, collapse; topple down; (descent); go to wrack and ruin; (destruction).

Inactivity

Languish, expend itself, flag, hang fire; relax.

Lateness

Verb: be late; Adjective: tarry, wait, stay, bide, take time; dawdle; (be inactive); linger, loiter; bide one's time, take one's time; gain time; hang fire; stand over, lie over.

Noncompletion

Fall short of; do things by halves, parboil, scotch the snake not lull it; hang fire; be slow to; collapse.

Physical Inertness

Verb: be -inert; Adjective: hang fire, smolder.

Refusal

Verb: refuse, reject, deny, decline, turn down; nill, negative; refuse one's assent, withhold one's assent; shake the head; close the hand, close the purse; grudge, begrudge, be slow to, hang fire; pass.

Slowness

Verb: move slowly; adVerb: creep, crawl, lag, slug, drawl, linger, loiter, saunter; plod, trudge, stump along, lumber; trail, drag; dawdle; (be inactive); grovel, worm one's way, steal along; job on, rub on, bundle on; toddle, waddle, wabble, slug, traipse, slouch, shuffle, halt, hobble, limp, caludicate, shamble; flag, falter, trotter, stagger; mince, step short; march in slow time, march in funeral procession; take one's time; hang fire; (be late).

Unproductiveness

Verb: be - unproductive; Adjective: hang fire, flash in the pan, come to nothing.

Unwillingness

Demur, stick at, scruple, stickle; hang fire, run rusty; recoil, shrink, swerve; hesitate; avoid.

Crosswords: HANG FIRE

Expressions using "HANG FIRE": hang fire in doing smth. ♦ To hang fire. Additional references.

Arabic 

‏تستطيل نار البندقية فى الرمى, ‏سحب (call, dash, disengage, draft, drag, dragging, draught, draw, drawing, drawing out, haul, heave, lug, pull, recall, recant, retreat, revoke, revulsion, run, strain, take back, take off, tow, traction, trail, train, tug, withdraw, withdrawal). (various references)

Bulgarian 

пипкам се (be slow, dawdle, dither). (various references)

Czech

zpozdit se při výstřelu. (various references)

French

faire long feu. (various references)

German

hängen (be behind, be caught, be involved, be on, be stuck, be vulnerable, connect, droop, fill, hang, hang around, hanged, hanging, hitch up, slouch, stoop, to hang). (various references)

Hungarian

vki nem válaszol, vár (abide, await, castle, expect, fastness, fortress, hold, stronghold, time and tide wait for no man, to await, to hang fire, to tend, to wait, to wait for, wait, wait for), nehezen sül el (to hang fire), lapít (flat, flatten, play possum, to flat, to hang fire, to plate, to play dead, to play possum, to sit tight, to skulk), késlekedik (delay, fall behind, hold off, procrastinate, to defer, to hang fire, to hold off, to lag, to linger, to procrastinate), csütörtököt mond (misfire, peter out, to boss, to fold, to misfire, to peter out, to snap), akadály (balk, bar, barrier, blockage, check, cumber, difficulty, drag, drawback, handicap, hindrance, hitch, hobble, hurdle, impediment, leap, let, lion in the path, lion in the way, malfunction, objection, obstacle, obstruction, retardation, ring fence, snag, stumbling block, stumbling-block, stumbling-stone, throw back, trammel, traverse). (various references)

Pig Latin

anghay irefay

Russian 

мешкать (dally, dawdle, dillydally, linger), медлить (delay, draggle, hang up, lag, linger, loiter, procrastinate, tarry), дать осечку (misfire, misgive). (various references)

Swedish

vänta med att skjuta. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: hangfire.

-1 letter: fearing, hearing.

-2 letters: earing, fainer, faring, finger, fringe, gainer, haeing, hanger, haring, hegari, hegira, hernia, hinger, infare, nigher, reagin, regain, regina, rehang.

-3 letters: afire, anger, fagin, feign, feria, finer, frena, ganef, garni, gerah, grain, grief, hinge, infer, infra, neigh, range, regna, reign, renig.

-4 letters: ager, agin, airn, earn, fain, fair, fane, fang, fare, fear.

+1 letter: fathering, hangfires.

+2 letters: anglerfish, chaffering, chamfering, feathering, wharfinger.

+3 letters: cliffhanger, farthingale, featherings, wharfingers.

+4 letters: anglerfishes, chauffeuring, cliffhangers, farthingales, forereaching, forgathering, godfathering, preachifying, refashioning, spearfishing.

+5 letters: airfreighting, enfranchising, fashionmonger, featheredging, foregathering, foreshadowing.