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present participle of overhang
Synonyms & Antonyms of overhanging
1
to extend outward beyond a usual point
- the narrow streets of the old European city are lined with row houses often having overhanging second stories
Synonyms for overhanging
- bagging,
- ballooning,
- beetling,
- bellying,
- billowing,
- bulging,
- bunching,
- jutting,
- poking,
- pooching
- [chiefly dialect],
- pouching,
- pouting,
- projecting,
- protruding,
- standing out,
- starting,
- sticking out,
- swelling
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2
to remain poised to inflict harm, danger, or distress on
- the problem of how he might be able to afford sending his children to college has been overhanging him for several years
Synonyms for overhanging
Words Related to overhanging
- endangering,
- hazarding,
- imperiling
- (or imperilling),
- jeopardizing,
- periling
- (also perilling)
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