overhung

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of overhang.

adjective

2. hung or suspended from above: an overhung door.

verb (used with object), o·ver·hung, o·ver·hang·ing.

1. to hang or be suspended over: A great chandelier overhung the ballroom.
2. to extend, project, or jut over: A wide balcony overhangs the garden.
3. to impend over or threaten, as danger or evil; loom over: The threat of war overhung Europe.
4. to spread throughout; permeate; pervade: the melancholy that overhung the proceedings.
5. Informal. to hover over, as a threat or menace: Unemployment continues to overhang the economic recovery.

verb (used without object), o·ver·hung, o·ver·hang·ing.

6. to hang over; project or jut out over something below: How far does the balcony overhang?

noun

7. something that extends or juts out over; projection.
8. the extent of projection, as of the bow of a ship.
9. Informal. an excess or surplus: an overhang of office space in midtown.
10. a threat or menace: to face the overhang of foreign reprisals.
11. Architecture. a projecting upper part of a building, as a roof or balcony.

verb (ˌəʊvəˈhæŋ) -hangs, -hanging or -hung

1. to project or extend beyond (a surface, building, etc)
2. (tr) to hang or be suspended over
3. (tr) to menace, threaten, or dominate

noun (ˈəʊvəˌhæŋ)

4. a formation, object, part of a structure, etc, that extends beyond or hangs over something, such as an outcrop of rock overhanging a mountain face
5. the amount or extent of projection
6. aeronautics
   1. half the difference in span of the main supporting surfaces of a biplane or other multiplane
   2. the distance from the outer supporting strut of a wing to the wing tip
7. finance the shares, collectively, that the underwriters have to buy when a new issue has not been fully taken up by the market

v.1590s, from over- + hang (v.). Related: Overhung; overhanging. n.“fact of overhanging,” 1864, from overhang (v.).