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surmount

[ser-mount]

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verb (used with object)

to mount upon; get on the top of; mount upon and cross over: to surmount a hill.

to get over or across (barriers, obstacles, etc.).

to prevail over: to surmount tremendous difficulties.

to be on top of or above: a statue surmounting a pillar.

to furnish with something placed on top or above: to surmount a tower with a spire.

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Obsolete.

to surpass in excellence.

to exceed in amount.

COLLAPSE

Origin:
1325–75; Middle English surmounten < Anglo-French surmounter, Middle French. See sur-¹, mount¹

Related forms

sur·mount·a·ble, adjective

sur·mount·a·ble·ness, noun

sur·mount·er, noun

un·sur·mount·a·ble, adjective

un·sur·mount·ed, adjective

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Both of the companies are betting that a new partnership will help them surmount separate but equally worrisome hurdles.

Challenge students to identify and surmount obstacles.

By using the internet, firms can sometimes surmount traditional barriers with an ease not previously available.

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Both of the companies are betting that a new partnership will help them surmount separate but equally worrisome hurdles.

Challenge students to identify and surmount obstacles.

By using the internet, firms can sometimes surmount traditional barriers with an ease not previously available.

Shred the entire mountain and surmount any landscape that stands in your way.

He believes that with time, industry can surmount the technical issues, but it is not a cheap proposition.

We brainstormed ways to surmount seemingly impossible challenges.

Excellent care is available, but patients must first surmount a daunting array of obstacles.

Had he agreed to surmount that hurdle they would have certainly set another before him.

Successful politicians surmount party allegiances, rather than entrench them.

Shred the entire mountain and surmount any terrain that stands in your way.

Finally, the entrepreneurs must surmount evolving governmental regulatory hurdles.

But it's not as if you can't surmount this obstacle.

Program notes can help people surmount this language barrier.

Mobile phones must still surmount social obstacles, however.

Tear up the entire mountain and surmount any landscape that stands in your way.

Apple also has a lead in design that will be tough to surmount.

Its criminal creators have so far adapted it to surmount all the obstacles put up by the firm's security geeks.

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Despite advances, scientists remain unable to surmount a critical barrier to increased fertility: maternal age.

Whether they will achieve to surmount the current difficulties is another question.

Shred the entire mountain and surmount any terrain that stands in your pathway.

Daly devotes herself to training her baby to surmount his handicaps.

There is ample room to grow despite many difficulties and obstacles to surmount.

Tear up the entire mountain and surmount any landscape that stands in your pathway.

Just because the problem is mental does not mean it is easy to surmount.

And it is unclear whether it is able to surmount the many serious domestic and geopoltical problems it is now confronting.

Bridges did surmount his problems and emerged ready to take on the world of acting again.

The catch was that protestors had to surmount an array of bureaucratic hurdles.

Les possessed a quiet determination to surmount obstacles and achieve his goals.

Her memoir is a narrative of the ability of the human spirit to surmount adversity.

While nothing can surmount the deathless nostalgia of the real thing, a well-made copy served up with a.

For instance, you can surmount an environmental obstacle.

Tear up the entire mountain and surmount any landscape that stands in your.

Subjects may be better off imagining how to surmount obstacles instead of ignoring them.

Third, plaintiff lawyers will have to surmount several obstacles before they can bring a case.

Besides, even if you manage to surmount identification barrier, there is still the transaction authorization one.

But nimble and determined firms can surmount these obstacles.

Credit this film for showing one way to surmount the mire without wallowing in it.

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He seemed to hold out hope that the afflicted could learn to cope with themselves and surmount their problems.

His mind-set enabled him to surmount injuries that may have deterred other superb athletes.

Many of the immigrants surmount language difficulties.

Ryan's, but that is to surmount a hurdle so low as to be laughable.

Magneplanar speakers surmount both these obstinate problems by dispensing with both cone and box.

There are clearly a number of obstacles to surmount in addressing the issue of food.

Shred the entire mountain and surmount any landscape that stands in your pathway.

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Collins

World English Dictionary

surmount (sɜːˈmaʊnt)

—vb
1.	to prevail over; overcome: to surmount tremendous difficulties
2.	to ascend and cross to the opposite side of
3.	to lie on top of or rise above
4.	to put something on top of or above
5.	obsolete to surpass or exceed

[C14: from Old French surmonter, from sur-¹ + monter to mount¹]

sur'mountable

—*adj*

sur'mountableness

—n

sur'mounter

—n

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Word Origin & History

surmount

late 14c., "to rise above, go beyond," from O.Fr. surmounter "rise above," from sur- "beyond" + monter "to go up" (see mount (v.)). Meaning "to prevail over, overcome" is recorded from late 14c.

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