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单词 towering
释义 towering
 —toweringly,  adv.  
 /tow"euhr ing/,  adj.  
  1. very high or tall; lofty: a towering oak.
  2. surpassing others; very great: a towering figure in American poetry.
  3. rising to an extreme degree of violence or intensity: a towering rage.
  4. beyond the proper or usual limits; inordinate; excessive: towering pride; towering ambitions.
 [1400-50; late ME; see TOWER1, -ING2]
 Syn. 1. elevated. See high.
 Ant. 1. short.
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