tower
/ˈtɑʊ·ər/ v [I always + adv/prep]Definition
› to appear very tall or large, or to be much taller than something else: As we drove on, the Rocky Mountains towered before us. Although he’s only 14, David towers over his mother.
(Definition of tower v from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary
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