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surmounted

[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.

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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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These letters are surrounded by a semicircle of gold lace surmounted by a cross.

In time, these inevitable barriers to integration might have been surmounted smoothly.

All these risk-takers see their environment, which is typically urban, as a giant obstacle course waiting to be surmounted.

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These letters are surrounded by a semicircle of gold lace surmounted by a cross.

In time, these inevitable barriers to integration might have been surmounted smoothly.

All these risk-takers see their environment, which is typically urban, as a giant obstacle course waiting to be surmounted.

All that could be seen of her was a black streak on the water surmounted by the light iron superstructure and the smoke-stack.

His was a chocolate cake dense as fudge, topped with chocolate cream light as ljulhter, surmounted by curls of chocolate.

Her sketch calls for an arch surmounted with a globe and an eagle.

The strcture was surmounted by a wooden cupola, and was used as a fermenting room and cooler.

But that can only happen if troubling issues of cost and practicality can be surmounted.

There are still real balance sheet problems that have to be surmounted.

Now the first project to have surmounted those obstacles has broken ground.

Yet perils are surmounted and the humans are soon back in bathing suits and at ease with the poles and flowers.

The ring displays two hands clasping a heart, usually surmounted by a crown.

At the center of the blockfront rose the entrance section, surmounted by a pyramidal roof carrying a clock tower.

At the foot of the architectural cross rises a graceful spire sixty feet high, surmounted by a double cross.

The gates have to be surmounted by firms wishing to enter or to.

The music was filled with the joy of risks taken and surmounted.

Goode was regarded as having surmounted the episode as a political issue.

But a number of sizable hurdles must be surmounted before the plans for a great hydropower future can be realized.

On the repeal of the tax provision, a similar challenge on budget grounds was easily surmounted.

Janvier created his masterpieces, including two four-faced astronomical clocks surmounted by mechanical spheres.

Rudgers had surmounted the problem by fudging his address.

They come with mallet shapes, one to a canvas, each consisting of a painted disk surmounted by a shaft cut from masonite.

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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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