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hung over

hung over is the alternative form of hungover.

hung over is the simple past and past participle of hang over.

Meaning of hungover

Adjective

hungover (comparative more hungover, superlative most hungover)

  1. Suffering from a hangover.

Meaning of hang over

Verb

hang over (third-person singular simple present hangs over, present participle hanging over, simple past and past participle hung over)

  1. (transitive) To be threatening, to be imminent.
    • A shadow of doubt hung over my academic future.
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see hang, over.
    • 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.2025 February 19, Paul Clifton, “I am absolutely committed to reforming the railway”, in RAIL, number 1029, page 39

Forms of hung over

comparativemore hung over
superlativemost hung over

Questions about hung over

What is hung over the alternative form of?
Hung over is the alternative form of hungover.

Words near hung over in the dictionary

  1. hung one's lip
  2. hung onto
  3. hung out
  4. hung out one's shingle
  5. hung out to dry
  6. hung over
  7. hung over someone's head
  8. hung parliament
  9. hung parliaments
  10. hung round
  11. hung ten

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hung over (page history and authors); hungover (page history and authors); hang over (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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