"hang over" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "hangs over",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hanging over",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hung over",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hung over",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "hang<,,hung> over"
      },
      "expansion": "hang over (third-person singular simple present hangs over, present participle hanging over, simple past and past participle hung over)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
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          "_dis": "56 44",
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            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "74 26",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English phrasal verbs formed with \"over\"",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "77 23",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "86 14",
          "kind": "other",
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          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "A shadow of doubt hung over my academic future.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1941 August, C. Hamilton Ellis, “The English Station”, in Railway Magazine, page 358:",
          "text": "Now, cramped and outclassed as Euston has become, rebuilding hangs over it with an awful inevitability.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2021 January 13, Christian Wolmar, “Read all about London's Cathedrals of Steam”, in RAIL, issue 922, page 63:",
          "text": "There was, though, on that April day, a cloud hanging over what should have been an entirely optimistic story. London was deep in the first lockdown and the stations were all but empty.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To be threatening, to be imminent."
      ],
      "id": "en-hang_over-en-verb-3ROjHMkm",
      "links": [
        [
          "threatening",
          "threatening"
        ],
        [
          "imminent",
          "imminent"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To be threatening, to be imminent."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2025 February 19, Paul Clifton, “I am absolutely committed to reforming the railway”, in RAIL, number 1029, page 39:",
          "text": "Peter, Lord Hendy of Richmond Hill, of Imber, dressed all in black as usual, sits at the head of the table. A crumpled and well-used orange vest hangs over the back of his chair.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see hang, over."
      ],
      "id": "en-hang_over-en-verb-Y8PniF85",
      "links": [
        [
          "hang",
          "hang#English"
        ],
        [
          "over",
          "over#English"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "hang over"
}

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    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English phrasal verbs",
    "English phrasal verbs formed with \"over\"",
    "English verbs",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "hangs over",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hanging over",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hung over",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hung over",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "hang<,,hung> over"
      },
      "expansion": "hang over (third-person singular simple present hangs over, present participle hanging over, simple past and past participle hung over)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "A shadow of doubt hung over my academic future.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1941 August, C. Hamilton Ellis, “The English Station”, in Railway Magazine, page 358:",
          "text": "Now, cramped and outclassed as Euston has become, rebuilding hangs over it with an awful inevitability.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2021 January 13, Christian Wolmar, “Read all about London's Cathedrals of Steam”, in RAIL, issue 922, page 63:",
          "text": "There was, though, on that April day, a cloud hanging over what should have been an entirely optimistic story. London was deep in the first lockdown and the stations were all but empty.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To be threatening, to be imminent."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "threatening",
          "threatening"
        ],
        [
          "imminent",
          "imminent"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To be threatening, to be imminent."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2025 February 19, Paul Clifton, “I am absolutely committed to reforming the railway”, in RAIL, number 1029, page 39:",
          "text": "Peter, Lord Hendy of Richmond Hill, of Imber, dressed all in black as usual, sits at the head of the table. A crumpled and well-used orange vest hangs over the back of his chair.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see hang, over."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "hang",
          "hang#English"
        ],
        [
          "over",
          "over#English"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "hang over"
}