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English
Etymology
From overtower + -ing.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: over‧tow‧er‧ing
Adjective
overtowering (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 , →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
- present participle and gerund of overtower