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third-person singular simple present surmounts, present participle surmounting, simple past and past participle surmounted
(transitive) To get or be over without touching or resting on; to overcome. quotations examples
this difficulty may perhaps be surmounted by care and art
1748, David Hume, Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral., London: Oxford University Press, published 1973, § 10
(transitive) To cap; to sit on top of. quotations examples
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.
2007, Robert Chitham, The Classical Orders of Architecture