Towering vs Toweringly - What's the difference?
towering | toweringly |
Very tall or high, particularly used to denote something that is taller than anything around it.
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*: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= The act or condition of being high above others.
* 1829 , John Timbs, Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors
* (Robert Burns)
As a verb towering
is present participle of lang=en.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.As an adverb toweringly is
in a towering manner.towering
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)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)- 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.
- 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.
