surmount
IPA: sɝmˈaʊnt
verb
- (transitive) To get or be over without touching or resting on; to overcome.
- (transitive) To cap; to sit on top of.
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Examples of "surmount" in Sentences
- Who is the guy surmounted the Everest
- They did not get to surmount the summit.
- The group were able to surmount in the end.
- The boy surmounted the mountain after four hours.
- The entire country would surmount the challenges.
- This is the biggest issue, and the hardest to surmount.
- The entrance door is surmounted by a decorative fanlight.
- A broad pediment surmounts the center section of the elevation.
- At the center of the arch it is surmounted by a globe and cross.
- They surmounted a distinction between the organism and the environment.
- The key difficulty Mr Brown needs to surmount is that Labour looks so dreadfully tired (as well as appallingly incompetent, but let’s leave that to one side).
- WASHINGTON—When President Barack Obama addresses the nation Tuesday, Americans won't see a lot of the candidate who promised to surmount the nation's political divisions.
- How will a growing common language allow humans to partake of life in a wider world, to surmount obstacles of global scope, and to find solace in continuities with the past?
- In a nutshell, Britain's experience suggests however loose the monetary policy, fiscal tightening is a hard headwind for an economy to surmount, especially when it's struggling out of a balance-sheet recession.
- The barrier OneNote aims to surmount is one created by Microsoft’s own success in establishing Word and Outlook, plus the overall Windows file system, as the dominant standards for writing, calendar keeping, and workplace communication.
- Of course we have "deep political and ideological divisions," but the failure of a committed left-wing ideologue to "surmount" them does not mean they are insurmountable, does not demonstrate that those divisions could not be surmounted by someone from either party truly determined to govern from closer to the center.