surmount

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /səˈmaʊnt/
• (US) IPA: /sɚˈmaʊnt/

Verb

surmount (third-person singular simple present surmounts, present participle surmounting, simple past and past participle surmounted)

1. to get over; to overcome
   • 1748. David Hume. Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. § 10.

     this difficulty may perhaps be surmounted by care and art

Related terms

• surmountable
• insurmountable

Translations

to get over; to overcome

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 克服 (cmn) (kèfú)

• Czech: překonat (cs)
• Dutch: overwinnen (nl)
• Finnish: voittaa, jättää jotain taaksen, päästä jonkin yli
• French: surmonter (fr)

• German: überwinden (de)
• Latin: superō (la)
• Norwegian: overvinne (no)
• Portuguese: superar (pt)
• Serbo-Croatian: nadvísiti (sh), prebròditi (sh), prevládati (sh)

External links

• surmount in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• surmount in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• surmount at OneLook Dictionary Search