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Towering   /tˈaʊərɪŋ/  /tˈaʊrɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Tower  v. t.  To soar into. (Obs.)


Tower  v. i.  (past & past part. towered; pres. part. towering)  To rise and overtop other objects; to be lofty or very high; hence, to soar. "On the other side an high rock towered still." "My lord protector's hawks do tower so well."


adjective
Towering  adj.  
1.
Very high; elevated; rising aloft; as, a towering height.
2.
Hence, extreme; violent; surpassing. "A man agitated by a towering passion."





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"Towering" Quotes from Famous Books



... reason, that a snub nose does not discharge the office of a barrier; (8) it allows the orbs of sight free range of vision: whilst your towering nose looks like an insulting wall of partition to shut off the ...
— The Symposium • Xenophon
... the feasting was resumed, and about midday, feeling somewhat recruited and refreshed, they set out on their journey with renovated spirits, shaping their course towards a mountain, the summit of which they saw towering in the east, and near to which they expected to find the head ...
— Astoria - Or, Anecdotes Of An Enterprise Beyond The Rocky Mountains • Washington Irving
... later, they were assembled outside the ship, fully armed and armored, and with full field gear. The sun, a yellow G-O star, hung hotly just above the towering mountains to the east. The alien air smelled odd in the men's nostrils, and the weird foliage seemed to rustle menacingly. In the distance, the shrieks of alien fauna occasionally echoed ...
— Despoilers of the Golden Empire • Gordon Randall Garrett
... a small high-lying, open plateau in the wood. The mountain rises abruptly behind them. To the left, far below, an extensive fiord landscape, with high ranges in the distance, towering one above the other. On the plateau, to the left, a dead fir-tree with a bench under it. The snow lies deep upon ...
— John Gabriel Borkman • Henrik Ibsen
... as the two ships towering pyramids of sails, making them marvels of beauty, swept onward with slow dignity across the mouth of the York River, at this point nearly three miles wide, toward the Gloucester shore. Before they had gone a quarter of a mile, a third ...
— Janice Meredith • Paul Leicester Ford


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