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

Further reading

• “tower over”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• overtower, overwrote