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Dowering vs Towering - What's the difference?

dowering | towering |

As verbs the difference between dowering and towering

is that dowering is while towering is .

As an adjective towering is

very tall or high, particularly used to denote something that is taller than anything around it.

As a noun towering is

the act or condition of being high above others.

dowering

English

Verb

(head)

    • towering

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Very tall or high, particularly used to denote something that is taller than anything around it.
  • *
  • *:So this was my future home, I thought!Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2010, date=December 28, author=Marc Vesty, work=BBC
    • , title= Stoke 0-2 Fulham , passage=And it was not until Ryan Shawcross's towering header was cleared off the line by Danny Murphy on the stroke of half-time that Stoke started to crank up the pressure and suggest they were capable of getting back into the match.}}

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act or condition of being high above others.
  • * 1829 , John Timbs, Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors
    • Gaiety seldom fails to give some pain; the hearers either strain their faculties to accompany its towerings , or are left behind in envy or despair.
  • * (Robert Burns)
    • But I am an old hawk at the sport; and wrote her such a cool, deliberate, prudent reply, as brought my bird from the aerial towerings pop down at my foot like Corporal Trim's hat.

    See also

    * tower over * towering inferno