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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
overtower .
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Examples
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The population is cut up into so many minute sections that the caste edifice overtowers everything else, so that it is in imminent danger of toppling over.
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But before you reduce all this great universe to the dimensions of a chemist's crucible, I pray you to think twice whether the mind that fashioned the crucible be not greater than the crucible; whether the Master-mind that shaped the laws of the universe be not greater than the universe; whether when man's mind loses grip -- as you call it -- of the little, nagging, insistent realities it may not leap free like the jagged lightnings from peak to peak of a consciousness that overtowers life's commoner levels!
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