From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Tower \Tow"er\, verb (used without an object) [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 The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Towering \Tow"er*ing\, adjective
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 WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
adjective
1: 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}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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
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