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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Towering \Tow"er*ing\, a.
1. Very high; elevated; rising aloft; as a towering height.
--Pope.
2. Hence extreme; violent; surpassing.
A man agitated by a towering passion. --Sir W.
Scott.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
On the other side an high rock towered still
--Spenser.
My lord protector's hawks do tower so well --Shak.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
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}]
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