“overtower”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

overtower

释义

overˈtower, v.
[over- 1 (b).]
trans. To tower over or above, to overtop.
1831J. Porter Sir E. Seaward's Narr. I. 58 The high rock which overtowered our vessel.1850Pique (1875) 184 Money was the grand desideratum which enabled people to overtower their fellows.1928E. Blom Limitations of Music 18 As an artist..he [sc. Mozart] overtowers every other figure in musical history.1954N. Pevsner Essex 385 The church is..cut off by the railway from the village and now overtowered by a modern factory.
So overˈtowering ppl. a.
1639Fuller Holy War ii. xxx. (1840) 89 To abate their overtowering conceits of him.1685Cotton tr. Montaigne (1877) I. 71 The proud and overtowering heights of our lofty buildings.1872A. J. Gordon In Christ vi. (1888) 130 Under the shadow of some overtowering greatness.

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