Usually means: Overcome obstacles or difficulties successfully.
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  1. surmount: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. surmount: Merriam-Webster
  3. surmount: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. surmount: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. surmount: Collins English Dictionary
  6. surmount: Vocabulary.com
  7. Surmount, surmount: Wordnik
  8. surmount: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. surmount: Wiktionary
  10. surmount: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. surmount: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. surmount: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. surmount: Dictionary.com
  14. surmount: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. surmount: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Surmount: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. surmount: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. surmount: Rhymezone
  19. Surmount: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. surmount: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. surmount: FreeDictionary.org
  22. surmount: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. surmount: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. surmount: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. surmount: Encyclopedia

(Note: See surmountable as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To get or be over without touching or resting on; to overcome.
verb:  (transitive) To cap; to sit on top of.

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