overtower

English

Etymology

From over- +‎ tower.

Verb

overtower (third-person singular simple present overtowers, present participle overtowering, simple past and past participle overtowered)

  1. (transitive) To tower above or over.
  2. (intransitive, obsolete) To soar too high. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Anagrams

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “overtower”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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