tower over

English[edit]

tower over (third-person singular simple present towers over, present participle towering over, simple past and past participle towered over)

(transitive) To be much taller or higher than something; to loom over.
- 1960 December, Voyageur, “The Mountain Railways of the Bernese Oberland”, in Trains Illustrated, page 754:
  It is this stretch which provides what is perhaps the most staggering scenic prospect of all; the impression made on the mind by the overwhelming height of the Eiger, towering over the train, is almost impossible to describe.
(transitive, figurative) To be much greater or more important than.
- 2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, page 87:
  There are three phyla of worms that, in terms of diversity and abundance, tower over the rest: the Roundworms (nematodes), the Annelids and the Flatworms.

to be considerably taller than