overboard vs towering

overboard

adv
  • Over the edge; especially, off or outside of a boat. 

  • Excessively; too much. 

verb
  • To throw over the edge of a boat into the water. 

adj
  • Outside of a boat; in the water. 

towering

noun
  • The act or condition of being high above others. 

adj
  • Very tall or high, so as to dwarf anything around it. 

How often have the words overboard and towering occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )