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• past participle of overhang.
• past tense form of overhang.

overhung

American  

[oh-ver-huhng, oh-ver-huhng] / ˌoʊ vərˈhʌŋ, ˈoʊ vərˌhʌŋ /

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of overhang.

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adjective

1. hung or suspended from above.

   an overhung door.

Etymology

Origin of overhung

First recorded in 1700–10; over- + hung

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Example Sentences

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overhung

It’s round so it can turn in place without running into another object, and flat so it can clean floors overhung by kitchen cabinets.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2025

Betsy Aurnou, climbing with wraparound shades and fabric completely covering her face, carried Fritos and Vitalyte, and referred to the occasional slivers of shadow beneath overhung cliffs as “shade opportunities.”

From New York Times ● Aug. 1, 2023

Some houses were so close to the narrowed stream that their decks overhung the water.

From Scientific American ● Apr. 1, 2022

It’s 3:55 p.m. and Elena Mullins, a Baroque dancer, is twirling in the center of a living room of a home surrounded by overhung trees in the Northwest DC neighborhood of Barnaby Woods. 

From Washington Post ● May 6, 2016

Tumbled shelves of rock often overhung the trail, fringed with hanging icicles that looked like long white teeth from a distance.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

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