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If we don't pick up a call,it just ends. So can "hang up" be used in this sense? I mean it's used with people.
Like:
Mom: Hey! I thought my phone was ringing.
I: It was but it just hung up.(no one picked it up and it ended like any call if no one picks it up.)
I guess the use of "hang up" isn't natural. So what will be actually be used in this context?
"Hang up" is fine, but I would phrase it as "They hung up (before I could answer it)" The subject should be the person making the call, not the telephone.
I wouldn't say "the call ended" as in this situation the call hasn't begun. You could say "the phone stopped ringing"
