mounting

[ moun-ting ]

noun

1. the act of a person or thing that mounts. mount.
2. something that serves as a mount, support, setting, or the like:

   a new mounting for an heirloom jewel.

mounting

/ ˈmaʊntɪŋ /

noun

1. See mount
   another word for mount 1

Other Words From

• un·mounting adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of mounting¹

late Middle English word dating back to 1400–50; mount ¹, -ing ¹

Example Sentences

My own three children — in the second, eighth and 10th grades — have been learning remotely since last March, so I can absolutely empathize with families’ mounting despair as the months drag on.

From Washington Post

At the close of trading yesterday there were mounting worries that the GameStop squeeze was hitting the wider markets.

From Fortune

As spring turned to summer last year, Hong Kong faced a mounting mental health crisis.

From Quartz

Other tech giants have joined Twitter and Facebook in taking action against the president and his allies in recent days amid mounting political tensions in the United States — and growing fears about deadly violence still to come.

From Washington Post

Parler had come under mounting pressure over the weekend as Google and then Apple pulled its app from their app stores over its role as a platform used to plan violent, illegal acts and its reluctance to moderate the site more stringently.

From MIT Technology Review

Confusion about who is financially backing the project is mounting.

From The Daily Beast

It means mounting a campaign that reaches your voters with your message and turning them out on Election Day.

From The Daily Beast

Stittsworth sighed and gazed out the window, whereupon he noticed a male goat mounting a female goat with extreme vigor.

From The Daily Beast

Political pressure was mounting tonight from veteran Conservative politicians on Cameron to take much tougher action against IS.

From The Daily Beast

But those two identifications are still subjects of debate, a problem that adds to the suspense now mounting at Amphipolis.

From The Daily Beast

She was growing accustomed to like shocks, but she could not keep the mounting color back from her cheeks.

From Project Gutenberg

Its tiny wreath of smoke curled lightly about her, mounting up in the warm, bright room.

From Project Gutenberg

Hexam watched her with an amused indulgence that in no wise tempered his mounting admiration.

From Project Gutenberg

With a flush mounting to his cheeks, and his brows drawn together in perplexity, Garnache surveyed him.

From Project Gutenberg

Not, indeed, until the foreigner's foot was on the step preparatory to mounting did Garnache speak.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• ascending
• climbing
• growing
• increasing
• soaring
• spiraling
• surging