ALL meanings of overhung
o·ver·hung
O o - verb overhung simple past tense and past participle of overhang. 1
- adjective overhung hung or suspended from above: an overhung door. 1
- verb with object overhung to hang or be suspended over: A great chandelier overhung the ballroom. 1
- verb with object overhung to extend, project, or jut over: A wide balcony overhangs the garden. 1
- verb with object overhung to impend over or threaten, as danger or evil; loom over: The threat of war overhung Europe. 1
- verb with object overhung to spread throughout; permeate; pervade: the melancholy that overhung the proceedings. 1
- verb with object overhung Informal. to hover over, as a threat or menace: Unemployment continues to overhang the economic recovery. 1
- verb without object overhung to hang over; project or jut out over something below: How far does the balcony overhang? 1
- noun overhung something that extends or juts out over; projection. 1
- noun overhung the extent of projection, as of the bow of a ship. 1
- noun overhung Informal. an excess or surplus: an overhang of office space in midtown. 1
- noun overhung a threat or menace: to face the overhang of foreign reprisals. 1
- noun overhung Architecture. a projecting upper part of a building, as a roof or balcony. 1
- noun overhung Overhung is the past tense and past participle of overhang. 0