Meaning of hang over | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To be threatening, to be imminent.
   transitive
2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see hang, over.

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Examples

“A shadow of doubt hung over my academic future.”

“Now, cramped and outclassed as Euston has become, rebuilding hangs over it with an awful inevitability.”

“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.”

“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.”

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