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overtower

overtower verb: to tower above or over.

Verb

overtower (third-person singular simple present overtowers, present participle overtowering, simple past and past participle overtowered)

  1. (transitive) To tower above or over.
    • 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
    • an enormous old maple overtowered the house.2014, Alan Edward Fish, The Yeshivah Buchor
  2. (intransitive, obsolete) To soar too high.

Forms of overtower

third-person singular presentovertowers
present participleovertowering
past participleovertowered
pastovertowered

Origin of overtower

From over- + tower.

Questions about overtower

What does overtower mean?
Overtower means to tower above or over.
What part of speech is overtower?
Overtower is a verb.
What is the past tense of overtower?
The past tense of overtower is overtowered.

Words near overtower in the dictionary

  1. overtours
  2. overtout
  3. overtouted
  4. overtouting
  5. overtouts
  6. overtower
  7. overtowered
  8. overtowering
  9. overtowers
  10. Overtown
  11. overtrace

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