hang over

Verb

Meaning

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

(transitive) to be threatening, to be imminent
A shadow of doubt hung over my academic future.

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There are many people today who see that modern society is heading toward disaster in one form or another, and who moreover recognize technology as the common thread linking the principal dangers that hang over us. Theodore Kaczynski

Two great problems hang over the world. War must disappear, and conquest must continue. These two necessities of a growing civilization seemed to exclude each other. How satisfy the one without failing the other? Victor Hugo

Several centuries ago the greatest writer in history described the two most menacing clouds that hang over human government and human society as "malice domestic and fierce foreign war." Franklin D. Roosevelt

I've heard people, usually writers, say that no one wrote a great book after winning the Booker, but I honestly did not feel any big pressure. 'The Gathering' did hang over me in that it was darker than I thought at the time. Anne Enright

Sometimes in the past when I played something might make me lose focus, or I would go home after a game where I thought I could have played better and I would let it hang over my head for a long time when it shouldn't. LeBron James

The word 'potential' used to hang over me like a cloud. Randy Johnson

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