English

Verb

towering

1. present participle of tower

Adjective

towering ‎(comparative more towering, superlative most towering)

1. Very tall or high, particularly used to denote something that is taller than anything around it.
   • 1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 29686887 , chapter IV:

     So this was my future home, I thought! […] Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.

   • 2010 December 28, Marc Vesty, “Stoke 0-2 Fulham”, in BBC:

     And it was not until Ryan Shawcross's towering header was cleared off the line by Danny Murphy on the stroke of half-time that Stoke started to crank up the pressure and suggest they were capable of getting back into the match.

Noun

towering ‎(plural towerings)

1. The act or condition of being high above others.
   • 1829, John Timbs, Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors

     Gaiety seldom fails to give some pain; the hearers either strain their faculties to accompany its towerings, or are left behind in envy or despair.

   • Robert Burns

     But I am an old hawk at the sport; and wrote her such a cool, deliberate, prudent reply, as brought my bird from the aerial towerings pop down at my foot like Corporal Trim's hat.

See also

• tower over
• towering inferno