tower
verb C2- To be very tall; to reach a high height. · The office block towered into the sky.· The tree will eventually tower taller than any of the others.
- To be high or lofty; to soar.
He/she/it towers · Past towered · Past participle towered · -ing form towering
Verb forms
- Base form
- tower
- He/she/it
- towers
- Past
- towered
- Past participle
- towered
- -ing form
- towering
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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It was now his turn to look about him; the Hôtel de Ville, a massive sixteenth century building, was on his right; anyone could descend from the openings in the tower, and examine every corner of the roof below, and Andrea expected momentarily to see the head of a gendarme appear at one of these openings.
He soon saw that the vessel, with the wind dead ahead, was tacking between the Château d’If and the tower of Planier.
“By the tower of Montlhéry, you mean?”
Leaving the village of Linas, without stopping at the telegraph, which flourished its great bony arms as he passed, the count reached the tower of Montlhéry, situated, as everyone knows, upon the highest point of the plain of that name.
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