overtower
verbEtymology From over- + tower.
1
To tower above or over.
- Slowly the whole eastern sky filled with clouds that overtowered us like some black sierra of the infernal regions.1904, Jack London, The Sea-Wolf (Macmillan’s Standard Library), New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC:
- an enormous old maple overtowered the house.2014, Alan Edward Fish, The Yeshivah Buchor:
2
Obsolete To soar too high.