surmount
verb (used with object)
to mount upon; get on the top of; mount upon and cross over.
had surmounted
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past perfectof surmount.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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She had surmounted one of the biggest obstacles housing officials say exists to using the voucher: getting a landlord to agree to rent to you.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2023
His team had surmounted a key obstacle in looking for receptors that the Covid-causing virus could attack.
From Salon ● Jan. 17, 2022
Still, she had surmounted serious differences with Trump’s two predecessors, George W. Bush and Obama, and became close partners with both.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 17, 2018
Yet a force more powerful and more serene had surmounted the whole lot of it, and a Thursday in 2017 had turned out to be luminous in part because it was unforeseeable.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 13, 2017
Captain Weldon, together with several men of his company, had surmounted the wall in face of a heavy fire, and had taken cover in a small depression on its further side.
From The Second Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers in the South African War With a Description of the Operations in the Aden Hinterland by Cecil Francis Romer
