N. height, altitude, elevation, eminence, pitch,
loftiness,
sublimity, tallness,
stature,
procerity, prominence,
colossus,
giant,
grenadier,
giraffe,
camelopard, mount, mountain, hill alto,
butte,
monticle, fell,
knap, cape,
headland,
foreland,
promontory, ridge, hog's back,
dune, rising ground, vantage ground, down,
moor,
moorland,
alp, uplands, highlands, heights &c. (summit), 210,
knob,
loma, pena, picacho,
tump,
knoll,
hummock,
hillock,
barrow,
mound,
mole, steeps,
bluff,
cliff,
craig,
tor,
peak,
pike,
clough,
escarpment, edge,
ledge,
brae, dizzy height, tower,
pillar, column,
obelisk, monument,
steeple,
spire,
minaret,
campanile,
turret, dome,
cupola, skyscraper, pole,
pikestaff,
maypole,
flagstaff, top mast, topgallant mast,
ceiling, high water, high tide, flood tide, spring tide,
altimetry, batophobia,
satellite, spy-in-the-sky
V. be high, tower,
soar, command,
hover, hover over, fly over, orbit, be in orbit, cap,
culminate,
overhang, hang over,
impend,
beetle,
bestride,
ride, mount,
perch,
surmount, cover, overtop, stand on tiptoe, become high, grow higher, grow taller,
upgrow, rise, send into orbit, render high,
heighten Adj. high, elevated, eminent,
exalted, lofty, tall, gigantic,
patagonian, towering,
beetling,
soaring, hanging, elevated, upper, highest, high reaching,
insessorial,
perching,
upland,
moorland, hilly,
knobby, mountainous, alpine,
subalpine, heaven kissing, cloudtopt, cloudcapt, cloudtouching,
aerial, overhanging,
incumbent, overlying,
superincumbent,
supernatant,
superimposed, prominent &c. c, 250, tall as a maypole, tall as a poplar, tall as a steeple,
lanky Adv. on high, high up,
aloft, up, above,
aloof, overhead, airwind,
upstairs, abovestairs, in the clouds, on tiptoe, on stilts, on the shoulders of, over head and ears, breast high, over, upwards, from top to bottom
Phr. e meglio cader dalle finistre che dal tetto
V. transgress,
surpass, pass, go beyond, go by, show in front, come to the front, shoot ahead of, steal a march upon, steal a gain upon, overstep, overpass, overreach,
overgo,
override,
overleap,
overjump,
overskip,
overlap, overshoot the mark, outstrip,
outleap, outjump,
outgo, outstep, outrun,
outride, outrival,
outdo, beat, beat hollow, distance, leave in the lurch, leave in the rear, throw into the shade, exceed,
transcend,
surmount,
soar,
encroach,
trespass,
infringe, trench upon, entrench on, intrench on, strain, stretch a point, strain a point, cross the rubicon
Adv. beyond the mark,
ahead N. ascent,
ascension, rising &c. # 309,
acclivity, hill, flight of steps, flight of stairs, ladder rocket,
lark, sky rocket, sky lark, alpine club
V. ascend, rise, mount, arise,
uprise, go up, get up, work one's way up, start up, shoot up, go into orbit, float up, bubble up,
aspire,
climb,
clamber,
ramp,
scramble,
escalade,
surmount,
shin, shinny,
shinney, scale, scale the heights, raise,
elevate, go aloft, fly aloft, tower,
soar, take off, spring up, pop up, jump up, catapult upwards, explode upwards,
hover,
spire, plane,
swim,
float,
surge,
leap 