towering
verb/ˈtaʊəɹɪŋ/
Definitions
present participle and gerund of tower
Very tall or high and dwarfing anything around it.
- She is a towering girl with a husky baritone voice and a friendly and flamboyant style.
- 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.
The act or condition of being high above others.
- 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.
- 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.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at towering. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at towering. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
5 hops · closes at towering
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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