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verb (used with object)
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to hang or be suspended over: A great chandelier overhung the ballroom.
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to extend, project, or jut over: A wide balcony overhangs the garden.
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to impend over or threaten, as danger or evil; loom over: The threat of war overhung Europe.
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to spread throughout; permeate; pervade: the melancholy that overhung the proceedings.
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Informal. to hover over, as a threat or menace: Unemployment continues to overhang the economic recovery.
verb (used without object)
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to hang over; project or jut out over something below: How far does the balcony overhang?
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Over-hanging
is always a great word to know.
So is callithumpian. Does it mean:
| a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes. |
| a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare. |
noun
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something that extends or juts out over; projection.
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the extent of projection, as of the bow of a ship.
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a threat or menace: to face the overhang of foreign reprisals.
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Architecture. a projecting upper part of a building, as a roof or balcony.
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Etymonline
Word Origin & History
overhang
1599 (v.), from over + hang (q.v.). The noun meaning "fact of overhanging" is attested from 1864.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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