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Verb [English]

IPA: /səˈmaʊnt/ [UK], /sɚˈmaʊnt/ [US] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-surmount.wav Forms: surmounts [present, singular, third-person], surmounting [participle, present], surmounted [participle, past], surmounted [past]
Rhymes: -aʊnt Etymology: From Middle English surmounten, from Old French surmonter (“to rise above, surmount”), from sur- (“above”) + monter (“to mount”). Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*men-|id=stand out}}, {{inh|en|enm|surmounten}} Middle English surmounten, {{der|en|fro|sormonter|surmonter|t=to rise above, surmount}} Old French surmonter (“to rise above, surmount”) Head templates: {{en-verb}} surmount (third-person singular simple present surmounts, present participle surmounting, simple past and past participle surmounted)
  1. (transitive) To get or be over without touching or resting on; to overcome. Tags: transitive Translations (to get over; to overcome): هَزَمَ (hazama) (Arabic), تَغَلَّبَ (taḡallaba) (Arabic), قَهَر (qahar) (Arabic), غلب (ġalab) [Egyptian-Arabic] (Arabic), هزم (hazam) [Egyptian-Arabic] (Arabic), преодолявам (preodoljavam) (Bulgarian), превъзмогвам (prevǎzmogvam) (Bulgarian), 克服 (kèfú) (Chinese Mandarin), překonat (Czech), overwinnen (Dutch), voittaa (Finnish), jättää jotain taakseen (Finnish), päästä jonkin yli (Finnish), surmonter (French), überwinden (German), υπερνικώ (ypernikó) (Greek), ξεπερνώ (xepernó) (Greek), υπερβαίνω (ypervaíno) (Greek), leküzd (Hungarian), legyőz (Hungarian), áthidal (Hungarian), felülkerekedik (Hungarian), úrrá lesz (Hungarian), 乗り越える (norikoeru) (alt: のりこえる) (Japanese), superō (Latin), ēluctor (Latin), surmounten (Middle English), overvinne (Norwegian), superar (Portuguese), преодолева́ть (preodolevátʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), преодоле́ть (preodolétʹ) [perfective] (Russian), nadvísiti (Serbo-Croatian), prebròditi (Serbo-Croatian), prevládati (Serbo-Croatian), överstiga (Swedish), aşmak (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-surmount-en-verb-BgyZVhrz Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 49 51 Disambiguation of 'to get over; to overcome': 90 10
  2. (transitive) To cap; to sit on top of. Tags: transitive
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: surmountable, insurmountable

Verb [Middle English]

Head templates: {{head|enm|verb}} surmount
  1. Alternative form of surmounten Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: surmounten
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Inflected forms

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        "2": "fro",
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        "4": "surmonter",
        "t": "to rise above, surmount"
      },
      "expansion": "Old French surmonter (“to rise above, surmount”)",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English surmounten, from Old French surmonter (“to rise above, surmount”), from sur- (“above”) + monter (“to mount”).",
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    {
      "form": "surmounts",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "surmounting",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "surmounted",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "surmounted",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
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  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "surmountable"
    },
    {
      "word": "insurmountable"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
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        {
          "ref": "1748, David Hume, Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral., London: Oxford University Press, published 1973, § 10:",
          "text": "this difficulty may perhaps be surmounted by care and art",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To get or be over without touching or resting on; to overcome."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "over",
          "over"
        ],
        [
          "overcome",
          "overcome"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To get or be over without touching or resting on; to overcome."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
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        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1951 April, “Notes and News: Locomotive Notes: London Midland Region”, in Railway Magazine, number 600, page 283:",
          "text": "The boiler had a large dome over the firebox, inside the cab, surmounted by Ramsbottom safety valves.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, Robert Chitham, The Classical Orders of Architecture, →ISBN:",
          "text": "The ovolo surmounting the dentil course generally turns the corner by means of a carved acanthus leaf, the decorated cyma and cyma reversa being similarly treated at the corner.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To cap; to sit on top of."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "cap",
          "cap"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To cap; to sit on top of."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "ipa": "/səˈmaʊnt/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
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      "ipa": "/sɚˈmaʊnt/",
      "tags": [
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    }
  ],
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    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "hazama",
      "sense": "to get over; to overcome",
      "word": "هَزَمَ"
    },
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "taḡallaba",
      "sense": "to get over; to overcome",
      "word": "تَغَلَّبَ"
    },
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "qahar",
      "sense": "to get over; to overcome",
      "word": "قَهَر"
    },
    {
      "code": "arz",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "ġalab",
      "sense": "to get over; to overcome",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "غلب"
    },
    {
      "code": "arz",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "hazam",
      "sense": "to get over; to overcome",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "هزم"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "preodoljavam",
      "sense": "to get over; to overcome",
      "word": "преодолявам"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "prevǎzmogvam",
      "sense": "to get over; to overcome",
      "word": "превъзмогвам"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "kèfú",
      "sense": "to get over; to overcome",
      "word": "克服"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "to get over; to overcome",
      "word": "překonat"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "to get over; to overcome",
      "word": "overwinnen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to get over; to overcome",
      "word": "voittaa"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to get over; to overcome",
      "word": "jättää jotain taakseen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to get over; to overcome",
      "word": "päästä jonkin yli"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to get over; to overcome",
      "word": "surmonter"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to get over; to overcome",
      "word": "überwinden"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "ypernikó",
      "sense": "to get over; to overcome",
      "word": "υπερνικώ"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "xepernó",
      "sense": "to get over; to overcome",
      "word": "ξεπερνώ"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "ypervaíno",
      "sense": "to get over; to overcome",
      "word": "υπερβαίνω"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to get over; to overcome",
      "word": "leküzd"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to get over; to overcome",
      "word": "legyőz"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to get over; to overcome",
      "word": "áthidal"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to get over; to overcome",
      "word": "felülkerekedik"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to get over; to overcome",
      "word": "úrrá lesz"
    },
    {
      "alt": "のりこえる",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "norikoeru",
      "sense": "to get over; to overcome",
      "word": "乗り越える"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "to get over; to overcome",
      "word": "superō"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "to get over; to overcome",
      "word": "ēluctor"
    },
    {
      "code": "enm",
      "lang": "Middle English",
      "sense": "to get over; to overcome",
      "word": "surmounten"
    },
    {
      "code": "no",
      "lang": "Norwegian",
      "sense": "to get over; to overcome",
      "word": "overvinne"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to get over; to overcome",
      "word": "superar"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "preodolevátʹ",
      "sense": "to get over; to overcome",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "преодолева́ть"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "preodolétʹ",
      "sense": "to get over; to overcome",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "преодоле́ть"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "to get over; to overcome",
      "word": "nadvísiti"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "to get over; to overcome",
      "word": "prebròditi"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "to get over; to overcome",
      "word": "prevládati"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "to get over; to overcome",
      "word": "överstiga"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "to get over; to overcome",
      "word": "aşmak"
    }
  ],
  "word": "surmount"
}

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  "lang": "Middle English",
  "lang_code": "enm",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
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          "word": "surmounten"
        }
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}

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