surmount

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surmount

/səˈmaʊnt/ UK
/sɚˈmaʊnt/ Canada, US
/səˈmæɔnt/ Australia
/səˈmæʊnt/ New Zealand

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From Middle English surmounten, from Old French surmonter (“to rise above, surmount”), from sur- (“above”) + monter (“to mount”), equivalent to sur- + mount.

verb surmounts · surmounting · surmounted

transitive To get or be over without touching or resting on; to overcome. this difficulty may perhaps be surmounted by care and art
transitive To cap; to sit on top of. The boiler had a large dome over the firebox, inside the cab, surmounted by Ramsbottom safety valves.

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verb to get over; to overcome

日本語	乗り越える norikoeru
中文	克服 kèfú
Português	superar
Français	surmonter
Deutsch	überwinden
Ελληνικά	υπερνικώ ypernikó, ξεπερνώ xepernó, υπερβαίνω ypervaíno
Русский	преодолева́ть preodolevátʹ, преодоле́ть preodolétʹ
العربية	هَزَمَ hazama, تَغَلَّبَ taḡallaba, قَهَر qahar

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@misc{surmount_2026,
  title = {surmount},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/surmount},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}