tower over

tower over

English

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

Translations

to be considerably taller than

Catalan: torrejar (ca) Dutch: bovenuittorenen Finnish: kohota korkealle Hungarian: tornyosul Icelandic: gnæfa Interlingua: elevar se Italian: torreggiare

Japanese: そびえ立つ (sobie tatsu) Macedonian: се извишува (se izvíšuva), надраснува (nadrásnuva) Old English: hlifian Portuguese: elevar-se Russian: возвыша́ться (ru) impf (vozvyšátʹsja) Spanish: sobresalir (es) Ukrainian: височіти (vysočity)

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Anagrams

• overtower, overwrote