towering

1. 1
   adjective

   So tall or high that it makes everything nearby look small.

   Like a giant standing in a crowd of small children.

   The towering cliffs threw a long shadow across the whole bay.

   From the valley floor, the mountain looked towering and impossibly steep.

   Similarsoaring, lofty, tall, giant, high

   Oppositelow, small, tiny

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2. 2
   verb

   Present participle of tower. Use this form when something rises very high above what is around it.

   The old oak was towering above the rooftops of the village.

   We watched the cliffs towering over the narrow beach below.

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3. 3
   noununcountable

   The act or state of being up high, above other people or things.

   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, LaconicsHere, towerings means high flights, rising far above ordinary talk.

   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 friendHere, towerings means rising high above, so the bird's high flights in the air.

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