| 词汇 | toweringly |
| 释义 | (redirected from toweringly)tower over (someone or something)To be much taller than someone or something else. They're almost comical together because he towers over her so much. The mighty new skyscraper towers over the city. tower above (someone or something)To be much taller than someone or something else. They're almost comical together because he towers above her so much. The mighty new skyscraper towers above the city. towering rage, in aExtremely angry. Towering has been used in the sense of rising to a pitch of violence or intensity since Shakespeare’s time. Shakespeare wrote, “The brauery of his griefe did put me into a towring passion” (Hamlet, 5.2). The precise modern locution appeared in William Black’s Green Pastures and Piccadilly (1877), “He came down in a towering rage.” It may now be obsolescent. |
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