towering over

Verb

tower over (third-person singular simple present towers over, present participle towering over, simple past and past participle towered over)

1. (transitive) To be much taller or higher than something; to loom over.
   • It is this stretch which provides what is perhaps the most staggering scenic prospect of all; the impression made on the mind by the overwhelming height of the Eiger, towering over the train, is almost impossible to describe.1960 December, Voyageur, “The Mountain Railways of the Bernese Oberland”, in Trains Illustrated, page 754
2. (figuratively, transitive) To be much greater or more important than.
   • There are three phyla of worms that, in terms of diversity and abundance, tower over the rest: the Roundworms (nematodes), the Annelids and the Flatworms.2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, page 87