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surmount

[ ser-mount ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

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.
Obsolete.
1. to surpass in excellence.
2. to exceed in amount.

surmount

/ sɜːˈmaʊnt /

First recorded in 1325–75; Middle English, from Anglo-French sormonter, surmounter, Old French sor(e)monter, s(o)urmonter; sur- ¹, mount ¹

C14: from Old French surmonter, from sur- ¹+ monter to mount ¹

And that is why, as veterans, the onus is on us to surmount it and bridge the divide.

His fiery enthusiasm swept aside all difficulties; his inventive genius ever showed him the way to surmount all obstacles.

It was the personality of their general which had taught the French soldiers to surmount all difficulties.

The true spirit of success is not to look at obstacles, but to keep the eye on the many ways in which to surmount them.

They are daunted by nothing they surmount walls and hedges, and enter enclosed gardens or inhabited houses.

My mind was staggered with a view of the difficulties I had to surmount and the little interest I possessed.

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