overtowering

English

Etymology

From overtower +‎ -ing.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: over‧tow‧er‧ing

Adjective

overtowering (comparative more overtowering, superlative most overtowering)

1. 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

that towers above or over

Verb

overtowering

1. present participle and gerund of overtower