Surmount
[sə'maʊnt] or [sɚ'maʊnt]
Definition
(v. i.) To rise above; to be higher than; to overtop.
(v. i.) To conquer; to overcome; as, to surmount difficulties or obstacles.
(v. i.) To surpass; to exceed.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Overcome, conquer, subdue, overpower, vanquish, master, triumph over, rise above, get the better of.
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Definition
v.t. to mount above: to surpass: to overcome get the better of.—adj. Surmount′able that may be surmounted.—n. Surmount′ableness.—adj. Surmount′ed surpassed: overcome: (archit.) denoting an arch or dome rising higher than a semicircle: (her.) denoting a figure when another is laid over it.—n. Surmount′er.
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Examples
- Not even the prospect of reward, far less any feelings of compassion alone, could surmount this apprehension. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- The difficulties, that occur to us, in supposing a moral obligation to attend promises, we either surmount or elude. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- They surmount a wall about ten or twelve feet high. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The ascent is precipitous, but the path is cut into continual and short windings, which enable you to surmount the perpendicularity of the mountain. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- The efforts, which the mind makes to surmount the obstacle, excite the spirits and inliven the passion. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- But it was not in a lover's nature--it was not in Fred's, that the new anxiety raised about Mary's feeling should not surmount every other. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- His sense of right had surmounted and would continue to surmount anything that might be called antipathy. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The banner of her family hung there, still surmounted by its regal crown. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- And when, looking up, her eyes met his dull despairing glance, her pity for him surmounted her anger and all her other anxieties. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Each spire is surmounted by a statue six and a half feet high. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The dark mark of fate and doom was on the threshold--the tall old threshold surmounted by coronets and caned heraldry. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- In the top was constructed a scientific laboratory surmounted by a lantern containing a powerful electric light. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The trunk is straight and naked, and surmounted by a crown of feather-like leaves. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Upon the top of the bank was a low brick wall, surmounted by an iron railing. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Yes, said Lydgate, a great leap of joy within him surmounting every other feeling; that would pay all my debts, and leave me a little on hand. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- This new and original railway bridge proved a success, and convinced England that Robert had inherited his father’s genius for surmounting what seemed impossible natural difficulties. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
Editor: Shanna