towering

towering
    adj 1: of imposing height; especially standing out above others;
           "an eminent peak"; "lofty mountains"; "the soaring spires
           of the cathedral"; "towering icebergs" [syn: {eminent},
           {lofty}, {soaring}, {towering}]
    

Tower \Tow"er\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {towered}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {towering}.]
   To rise and overtop other objects; to be lofty or very high;
   hence, to soar.
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         On the other side an high rock towered still.
                                                  --Spenser.
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         My lord protector's hawks do tower so well. --Shak.
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Towering \Tow"er*ing\, a.
   1. Very high; elevated; rising aloft; as, a towering height.
      --Pope.
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   2. Hence, extreme; violent; surpassing.
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            A man agitated by a towering passion. --Sir W.
                                                  Scott.
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128 Moby Thesaurus words for "towering":
      Atlantean, Brobdingnagian, Cyclopean, Gargantuan, Herculean,
      Homeric, Olympian, abysmal, aerial, airy, altitudinous, ascending,
      aspiring, astronomic, august, burning, colossal, consuming,
      cracking, crashing, distinguished, dizzy, dominating, elephantine,
      elevated, eminent, enormous, epic, ethereal, exalted, excessive,
      exorbitant, extraordinary, extravagant, extreme, famous, fantastic,
      fiery, giant, giantlike, gigantic, glorious, godlike, great,
      haughty, heroic, high, high-pitched, high-reaching, high-set,
      high-up, huge, immense, immoderate, imposing, impressive,
      incomparable, infinite, inordinate, intemperate, intense, jumbo,
      lauded, lofty, magnanimous, magnificent, majestic, mammoth,
      massive, mighty, mind-blowing, monster, monstrous, monumental,
      mortal, mountainous, mounting, noble, outstanding, outtopping,
      overlooking, overpowering, overtopping, overwhelming, paramount,
      passionate, preeminent, prodigious, profound, prominent, renowned,
      sky-high, skyscraping, soaring, spiring, steep, stupendous,
      sublime, superb, superior, superlative, supernal, supreme,
      surpassing, tall, titanic, topless, toplofty, topping, towery,
      transcendent, tremendous, ultimate, unconscionable, undue,
      unequally, unmatchable, unmatched, unmeasurable, unparalleled,
      unrestrained, unsurpassable, unsurpassed, uplifted, upreared, vast,
      vehement, violent