"surmountable" meaning in English

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Adjective

Forms: more surmountable [comparative], most surmountable [superlative]
Etymology: surmount + -able Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|surmount|able}} surmount + -able Head templates: {{en-adj}} surmountable (comparative more surmountable, superlative most surmountable)
  1. Able to be surmounted or overcome; defeatable. Translations (able to be surmounted or overcome; defeatable): преодолим (preodolim) (Bulgarian), überwindbar (German), überspringbar (German), passierbar (German), leküzdhető (Hungarian), legyőzhető (Hungarian), áthidalható (Hungarian), superābilis (Latin), aşılabilir (Turkish)

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