overtower

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verb

To tower above or over.

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Meanings

verbovertower (third-person singular simple present overtowers, present participle overtowering, simple past and past participle overtowered)

present singular third person overtowers · participle present overtowering · participle past overtowered · past overtowered

  1. transitiveTo tower above or over.

    an enormous old maple overtowered the house.

    2014, Alan Edward Fish, The Yeshivah Buchor
    1 more example

    Slowly the whole eastern sky filled with clouds that overtowered us like some black sierra of the infernal regions.

    1904, Jack London, The Sea-Wolf (Macmillan’s Standard Library), New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC
  2. intransitiveobsoleteTo soar too high.

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
overspring

Origin

From over- + tower.

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APA

overtower. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/overtower

MLA

“overtower.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/overtower. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “overtower,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/overtower.

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