overhung

• (US, Verb) IPA^(key): /oʊvəɹˈhʌŋ/
• Rhymes: -ʌŋ
• (US, Adjective) IPA^(key): /ˈoʊvəɹˌhʌŋ/

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overhung

1. simple past tense and past participle of overhang

overhung (not comparable)

1. Covered over; ornamented with hangings.
   • 1830 Thomas Carlyle, On History, 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

• hung over, hungover