overtowering
English
editEtymology
editPronunciation
edit- Hyphenation: over‧tow‧er‧ing
Adjective
editovertowering (comparative more overtowering, superlative most overtowering)
- That towers above or over; that overtowers.
- 1639, Thomas Fuller, The Historie of the Holy Warre, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Thomas Buck, one of the printers to the Universitie of Cambridge [and sold by John Williams, London], →OCLC, book II, page 83:
- And ſurely this humiliation was both wholeſome and neceſſary for him. […] Wherefore this miſcarriage came very ſeaſonably to abate their over-towring conceits of him; and perchance his own of himſelf.
Translations
editthat towers above or over
Verb
editovertowering
- present participle and gerund of overtower