overhung
English
Pronunciation
- (US, Verb) IPA(key): /oʊvəɹˈhʌŋ/
- Rhymes: -ʌŋ
- (US, Adjective) IPA(key): /ˈoʊvəɹˌhʌŋ/
Audio (US, verb) (file)
Adjective
overhung (not comparable)
- 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[.]
- 1830 Thomas Carlyle, On History, Fraser's Magazine
- Suspended from above or from the top.
- an overhung door
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