<p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>to hang or be suspended over: A great chandelier overhung the ballroom.</li><li>to extend, project, or jut over: A wide balcony overhangs the garden.</li><li>to impend over or threaten, as danger or evil; loom over: The threat of war overhung Europe.</li><li>to spread throughout; permeate; pervade: the melancholy that overhung the proceedings.</li><li>Informal: to hover over, as a threat or menace: Unemployment continues to overhang the economic recovery.</li></ul><p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>something that extends or juts out over; projection.</li><li>the extent of projection, as of the bow of a ship.</li><li>Informal: an excess or surplus: an overhang of office space in midtown.</li><li>a threat or menace: to face the overhang of foreign reprisals.</li><li>Architecture: a projecting upper part of a building, as a roof or balcony.</li></ul>