Tower \Tow"er\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. towered; p. pr. & vb. n.
towering.]
To rise and overtop other objects; to be lofty or very high;
hence, to soar.
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On the other side an high rock towered still.
--Spenser.
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My lord protector's hawks do tower so well. --Shak.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Towering \Tow"er*ing\, a.
1. Very high; elevated; rising aloft; as, a towering height.
--Pope.
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2. Hence, extreme; violent; surpassing.
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A man agitated by a towering passion. --Sir W.
Scott.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
towering
adj : of imposing height; especially standing out above others;
"an eminent peak"; "lofty mountains"; "the soaring
spires of the cathedral"; "towering iceburgs" [syn: eminent,
lofty, soaring]
WordNet (r) 2.0
128 Moby Thesaurus words for "towering":
Atlantean, Brobdingnagian, Cyclopean, Gargantuan, Herculean,
Homeric, Olympian, abysmal, aerial, airy, altitudinous, ascending,
aspiring, astronomic, august, burning, colossal, consuming,
cracking, crashing, distinguished, dizzy, dominating, elephantine,
elevated, eminent, enormous, epic, ethereal, exalted, excessive,
exorbitant, extraordinary, extravagant, extreme, famous, fantastic,
fiery, giant, giantlike, gigantic, glorious, godlike, great,
haughty, heroic, high, high-pitched, high-reaching, high-set,
high-up, huge, immense, immoderate, imposing, impressive,
incomparable, infinite, inordinate, intemperate, intense, jumbo,
lauded, lofty, magnanimous, magnificent, majestic, mammoth,
massive, mighty, mind-blowing, monster, monstrous, monumental,
mortal, mountainous, mounting, noble, outstanding, outtopping,
overlooking, overpowering, overtopping, overwhelming, paramount,
passionate, preeminent, prodigious, profound, prominent, renowned,
sky-high, skyscraping, soaring, spiring, steep, stupendous,
sublime, superb, superior, superlative, supernal, supreme,
surpassing, tall, titanic, topless, toplofty, topping, towery,
transcendent, tremendous, ultimate, unconscionable, undue,
unequally, unmatchable, unmatched, unmeasurable, unparalleled,
unrestrained, unsurpassable, unsurpassed, uplifted, upreared, vast,
vehement, violent
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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