towers is a form of:
Tower
noun
- 1.
- (a tall structure often part of another building; stronghold; fortress; thing superior to others) stone tower ប៉ម, storm the tower បន្ទាយ
verb — past tense: towered ; past participle: towered ; present participle: towering ;
- 1.
- (INTRANSITIVE) (To be of great height, to be taller or more eminent than others) លេចត្រដែតឡើង
Example: A high tower, The Tower of London, Sky scrapers towering above the streets. - 2.
- (បច្ចេកទេស) ខ្ពស់ជាងគេ
ENGLISH MEANING
noun
- 1.
- A headdress of a high or towerlike form, fashionable about the end of the seventeenth century and until 1715; also, any high headdress.
- 2.
- High flight; elevation.
- 3.
- A mass of building standing alone and insulated, usually higher than its diameter, but when of great size not always of that proportion.
- 4.
- A projection from a line of wall, as a fortification, for purposes of defense, as a flanker, either or the same height as the curtain wall or higher.
- 5.
- A structure appended to a larger edifice for a special purpose, as for a belfry, and then usually high in proportion to its width and to the height of the rest of the edifice; as, a church tower.
- 6.
- A citadel; a fortress; hence, a defense.
verb — past tense: towered ; past participle: towered ; present participle: towering ;
- 1.
- (INTRANSITIVE) To rise and overtop other objects; to be lofty or very high; hence, to soar.
- 2.
- (TRANSITIVE) To soar into.