surmount

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

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Infinitive
to surmount

Third person singular
surmounts

Simple past
surmounted

Past participle
surmounted

Present participle
surmounting

to 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

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