Meanings
verbhang onto (third-person singular simple present hangs onto, present participle hanging onto, simple past and past participle hung onto)
present singular third person hangs onto · participle present hanging onto · participle past hung onto · past hung onto
- to keep
They hang onto all these kinds of thing, and insist that only what offers contact and touch is a thing that is.
2005, Plato, translated by Lesley Brown, Sophist, page 246b
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