different between toweling vs towering

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toweling (usually uncountable, plural towelings)

toweling

towering

towering (comparative more towering, superlative most towering)

Very tall or high, so as to dwarf anything around it.
- So this was my future home, I thought! […] Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
- 1964, Look (volume 28, page 338)
  She is a towering girl with a husky baritone voice and a friendly and flamboyant style.

towering (plural towerings)

The act or condition of being high above others.
- 1787, Robert Burns, letter to a friend
  But I am an old hawk at the sport; and wrote her such a cool, deliberate, prudent reply, as brought my bird from the aerial towerings, pop down at my foot like Corporal Trim's hat.

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