Usually means: Extremely tall, reaching great heights.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. towering: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. towering: Merriam-Webster
  3. towering: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. towering: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. towering: Collins English Dictionary
  6. towering: Vocabulary.com
  7. Towering, towering: Wordnik
  8. towering: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. towering: Wiktionary
  10. towering: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. towering: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. towering: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. towering: Dictionary.com
  14. towering: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Towering, towering: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. towering: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. towering: Rhymezone
  18. towering: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. towering: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. towering: FreeDictionary.org
  21. towering: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. towering: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. towering: Legal dictionary

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  1. towering: Encyclopedia

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  1. towering: Idioms

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  1. towering: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)

(Note: See tower as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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adjective:  Very tall or high and dwarfing anything around it.
noun:  The act or condition of being high above others.

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