overhung

English

Pronunciation
  • (US, verb) IPA(key): /oʊvəɹˈhʌŋ/
  • Rhymes: -ʌŋ
  • (US, adjective) IPA(key): /ˈoʊvəɹˌhʌŋ/
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Verb

overhung

  1. simple past and past participle of overhang

Adjective

overhung (not comparable)

  1. Covered over; ornamented with hangings.
    • 1830, Thomas Carlyle, “On History”, in Fraser's Magazine:
      [T]he former, is but a vacant edifice; gilded, it may be, and overhung with old votive gifts, yet useless, nay pestilentially unclean[.]
  2. Suspended from above or from the top.
    an overhung door

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