towering

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of tower

comparative more towering · superlative most towering

1. Very tall or high and dwarfing anything around it.

   She is a towering girl with a husky baritone voice and a friendly and flamboyant style.

   1964, Look, volume 28, page 338

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   So this was my future home, I thought![…]Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.

   1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter IV, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC

   And it was not until Ryan Shawcross's towering header was cleared off the line by Danny Murphy on the stroke of half-time that Stoke started to crank up the pressure and suggest they were capable of getting back into the match.

   2010 December 28, Marc Vesty, “Stoke 0-2 Fulham”, in BBC, archived from the original on 10 Oct 2024

plural towerings

1. The act or condition of being high above others.

   Gaiety seldom fails to give some pain; the hearers either strain their faculties to accompany its towerings, or are left behind in envy or despair.

   1829, John Timbs, Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors

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   But I am an old hawk at the sport; and wrote her such a cool, deliberate, prudent reply, as brought my bird from the aerial towerings, pop down at my foot like Corporal Trim's hat.

   1787, Robert Burns, letter to a friend