Cryptic crossword clue
In prison? Death therein, hanging sometimes 7

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word PENDENT

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What does PENDENT mean?

PENDENT noun
  1. A supporting post attached to the main rafter.
  2. A piece of jewellery which hangs down as an ornament, especially worn on a chain around the neck.
  3. The dangling part of an earring.
  4. A short rope hanging down, used to attach hooks for tackles; a pennant.
  5. One of a pair; a counterpart.
  6. An appendix or addition, as to a book.
  7. (in the plural) Testicles.
  8. A pendulum.
  9. The stem and ring of a watch, by which it is suspended.
  10. A lamp hanging from the roof.
  11. An ornament of wood or of stone hanging downwards from a roof.
  12. A long narrow flag at the head of the principal mast in a royal ship.
PENDENT adjective
  1. Dangling, drooping, hanging down or suspended.
  2. Pending in various senses.
  3. (of a structure) either hanging in some sense, or constructed of multiple elements such as the voussoirs of an arch or the pendentives of a dome, none of which can stand on its own, but which in combination are stable.
  4. (grammar, of a sentence) incomplete in some sense, such as lacking a finite verb.
  5. Projecting over something; overhanging.

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