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overtowered

overtowered is the simple past and past participle of overtower.

Meaning of overtower

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
  2. (intransitive, obsolete) To soar too high.

Questions about overtowered

What is overtowered the simple past and past participle of?
Overtowered is the simple past and past participle of overtower.

Words near overtowered in the dictionary

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

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