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動詞

overhung

1. simple past and past participle of overhang

形容詞

overhung (not comparable)

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

3. That hangs over; overhanging.
   • 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 174:

     Though almost engulfed by Bedford, Elstow's claim to villagedom is still maintained by two fine rows of timber-framed, overhung, black-and-white cottages and the timber and herringbone-brick Swan pub.

アナグラム

• hung over, hungover