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uptowering

uptowering is the present participle and gerund of uptower.

Meaning of uptower

Verb

uptower (third-person singular simple present uptowers, present participle uptowering, simple past and past participle uptowered)

  1. (poetic, transitive) To tower above; to loom.
    • Where wealth and worth and nobleness all flower, / There too doth misery and vice uptower.1884, John S. Rae, Poems and Songs, page 42

Questions about uptowering

What is uptowering the present participle and gerund of?
Uptowering is the present participle and gerund of uptower.

Words near uptowering in the dictionary

  1. uptossed
  2. uptosses
  3. uptossing
  4. uptower
  5. uptowered
  6. uptowering
  7. uptowers
  8. uptown
  9. uptowner
  10. uptowners
  11. uptowns

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