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🏠 Roof edge 🌳 To overhang
to eave

to eave

1 8.6
To stick out over a wall like the edge of a roof
  • verb
  • /iv/
translation icon : sobresalir
  • The old cottage featured a charming eave that sloped gently down to the ground.

Examples

  • The roof had a broad eave that sheltered the entrance from the rain.

  • It almost never rains in Lima, so the houses don't need gutters and eaves troughs.

    Fiction book (1991)

  • They installed decorative trim under the eave to enhance the house's appearance.

Synonyms

to overstand
vsto eave
9.6

To stand above something and stick out over it

projects outward horizontally like the edge of a roof

Surface Forms

eave infinitive
eaved past
eaved past participle
eaving present participle
eaves third person singular

Etymology

Eave comes from the same old English root efes meaning 'edge', so to eave is to 'hang over' or stick out like the edge of a roof. That's why this verb means to project outward and give cover below.