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overtower en · VERB

Etymology

From over- + tower.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To tower above or over.
   • an enormous old maple overtowered the house. 2014, Alan Edward Fish, The Yeshivah Buchor:
   • Slowly the whole eastern sky filled with clouds that overtowered us like some black sierra of the infernal regions. 1904, Jack London, The Sea-Wolf (Macmillan’s Standard Library), New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC:
2. (intransitive, obsolete) To soar too high.

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