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fastness. -v. 3. reach high, stand high; uprise, rear; mount, soar, ascend; surmount, overtop.
4. Usu. tower above surpass, exceed, transcend, leave behind, leave in the dust; prevail over, take precedence over, supercede; excel, better, be head and shoulders above, be several cuts above; outstrip, outdo, outvie, outperform, outclass, outshine, Inf. run rings or circles around; cap, top, overtop; overshadow, throw or cast into the shade, eclipse, put to shame, Inf. show [s.o.] up. towering, adj. 1. high, tall, lofty, elevated, alpine, mountainous, skyscraping, sky-high, heaven-kissing; enormous, prodigious, gigantic, Brobdingnagian, titanic, colossal, monumental.
2. surpassing, transcendent, exceeding, excelling, outstripping, eclipsing; extraordinary, out of the ordinary, rare; superior, better, finer, greater, head and shoulders above, a cut or stroke above; outstanding, standout, preeminent; incomparable, inimitable, nonpareil, peerless, matchless, second to none, in a class by itself, Latin, sui generis; unequaled, unmatched, unrivaled, unsurpassed, unparalleled.
3. intense, violent, vehement, passionate, frenzied, frantic; consuming, burning, flaming, blazing, flaring; strong, fierce, severe; powerful, potent, mighty.
4. inordinate, excessive, immoderate, extravagant, beyond all measure; unrestrained, unlimited, intemperate; unreasonable, disproportionate, undue, uncalled-for, unwarranted, unneeded, unnecessary; exorbitant, extreme, too much, unconscionable, outrageous, preposterous. town, n. 1. municipality, township, borough, village, Inf. burg, (in Scotland) burgh, hamlet, Archaic. thorp, Archaic, wick; settlement, (in South Africa) kraal, (in Spanish America) pueblo.
2. city, metropolis; downtown, center, shopping area, shopping center, mall; business district, rialto, exchange, mart. townsman, n. oppidan, inhabitant, native, citizen, burgher, villager; dweller, resident, local; fellow townsman, hometown boy, compatriot, Sl. paisano. toxic, adj. 1. poisonous, venomous, virulent, (in prescriptions) venenosus, morbific; fell, baneful, mephitic, viperous, Rare, virose, Archaic, veneose; pestilential, pestiferous, infective, infectious, pestilent, contaminative, contagious, leprous, septic.
2. deadly, lethal, fatal, mortal, mortiferous, Archaic. lethiferous; pernicious, dangerous, deleterious, destructive, ruinous; harmful, injurious, nocuous, noxious, malicious, malign; unhealthful, unhealthy, insalubrious, unhygienic, unsanitary. toxin, n. poison, toxicant, venom, miasma; pathogen, virus, bacterium, bacillus, pollutant, contaminant; contamination, infection, pollution, virulence; bane, wolfsbane, henbane, hemlock, arsenic, belladonna, deadly nightshade, strychnine, curare. toy, n. 1. plaything, doll, Baby Talk, dolly, puppet, marionette, teddy bear; hobbyhorse, rocking horse; top, whirligig, teetotum; ball; jack-in-the-box.
2. trifle, triviality, small matter, nothing, nothing at all, no big thing, no big deal, tinker's dam.
3. trinket, bauble, knickkack, gimcrack, gewgaw, kickshaw, bagatelle, whim-wham, (pi.) frippery. -adj. 4. play, miniature; imitation, make-believe fake. -v. 5. play, play around, sport, disport, amuse oneself; horse around, Sl. fool around, Inf. fool with; trifle, potter, putter, smatter, tinker, fiddle.
6. act idly, dawdle, dally, dillydally, shilly-shally, loiter, linger, take one's time, take one's own sweet time, Inf lallygag; delay, kill time, waste time, while away the time or hours.
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