TOWERING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does towering mean? 

• TOWERING (adjective)
  The adjective TOWERING has 1 sense:

1. of imposing height; especially standing out above others

  Familiarity information: TOWERING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TOWERING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of imposing height; especially standing out above others

Synonyms:

eminent; lofty; soaring; towering

Context example:

towering icebergs

Similar:

high ((literal meaning) being at or having a relatively great or specific elevation or upward extension (sometimes used in combinations like 'knee-high'))

 Context examples 

Cassini found that Enceladus sprays towering, geyser-like jets of water vapor and icy particles, including simple organics, from warm fractures near its south pole.

(Powering Saturn's Active Ocean Moon, NASA)

The finding is intriguing, because it suggests that the lower-altitude hexagon may influence what happens above, and that it could be a towering structure hundreds of miles in height.

(Saturn's Famous Hexagon May Tower Above the Clouds, NASA)

With its towering ice formations and large underground ice deposit, Scărișoara Ice Cave is among the most important scientific sites in Europe.

(Ice cave in Transylvania yields window into region's past, NSF)

After the sediment hardened, wind carved the layered rock into the towering Mount Sharp, which Curiosity is climbing today.

(NASA's Curiosity Rover Finds an Ancient Oasis on Mars, NASA)

A broad moat, a high outer wall turreted at the corners, with a great black keep towering above all—so it lay before them in the moonlight.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

New research has discovered the tallest known tree in the Amazon, towering above the previous record holder at a height of 88.5 metres.

(Expedition finds tallest tree in the Amazon, University of Cambridge)

New images of Ceres from NASA's Dawn spacecraft provide more clues about its mysterious bright spots, and also reveal a pyramid-shaped peak towering over a relatively flat landscape.

(Ceres Spots Continue to Mystify in Latest Dawn Images, NASA)

The log cabins he had known were replaced by towering buildings.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Dotted here and there on the mountain's-side, each tiny dot a home, were lonely wooden cottages, so dwarfed by the towering heights that they appeared too small for toys.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

JunoCam data has detected atmospheric wave trains, towering atmospheric structures that trail one after the other as they roam the planet, with most concentrated near Jupiter's equator.

(NASA's Juno Mission Detects Jupiter Wave Trains, NASA)