Hanged and Shot

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Shot and hanged are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Shot" instead an adjective "Hanged".

Nearby Words: hang, hanging, hanger

Shot adjective - Varying in color when seen in different lights or from different angles.

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Hanged and shot are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Hanged" instead an adjective "Shot".

Most mercenaries fall in the former camp; the near-certainty that most of them have done some variation of Rape, Pillage, and Burn that would have them shot or hanged in any modern army is overlooked.

Source: Literature / 1632
Almost all of the war criminals at the end of WWII were hanged, rather than shot, despite many of them requesting death by firing squad instead.

Source: Shot at Dawn
On the European side, Mussolini was shot by his own people, Hitler shot himself, Lord Haw-Haw was hanged, and Rudolf Hess died in prison in 1987.

Source: Western Animation / Tokio Jokio

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