Definitions for surmount

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surmount sur·mount

Spelling: [ser-mount]

IPA: /sərˈmaʊnt/

Surmount is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 196 anagrams from letters in surmount (mnorstuu).

Definitions for surmount

verb (used with object)

1. to mount upon; get on the top of; mount upon and cross over:
2. to get over or across (barriers, obstacles, etc.).
3. to prevail over:
4. to be on top of or above:
5. to furnish with something placed on top or above:
6. Obsolete. to surpass in excellence. to exceed in amount.

Origin of surmount

1325-75; Middle English surmounten Anglo-French surmounter, Middle French. See sur-¹, mount¹

Examples for surmount

Then there were the high walls of custom and prejudice to surmount.

I had a good deal of pain to surmount myself, as to the last.

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

We had to surmount them, and with our brigadier we took our coats off and buckled to the job.

Tell them all together, in the class, what their difficulties will be, and how they may surmount them.

It seemed that the freshmen could not surmount the fatal two points.

With this they were to surmount the stockade and gain the open.

The absolute want of room is an evil that nothing can surmount.

Flora was beside me, and I felt ready to surmount any peril for her sake.

Throw what obstacles in the way you please; it will surmount them all.