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Etymology

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up- +‎ tower

Verb

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uptower (third-person singular simple present uptowers, present participle uptowering, simple past and past participle uptowered)

  1. (transitive, poetic) To tower above; to loom.
    • 1884, John S. Rae, Poems and Songs, page 42:
      Where wealth and worth and nobleness all flower, / There too doth misery and vice uptower.