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overtowers

overtowers is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 overtowers

What is overtowers the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Overtowers is the third-person singular simple present indicative of overtower.

Words near overtowers in the dictionary

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

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