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She surmounted many challenges on her way to becoming a successful business owner.surmounted = overcame
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I believe I can surmount the obstacles and succeed.surmount = overcome
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'Production!' become a chorused refrain whilst, without interrupting the action and the comings and goings, one hears, in voices loud enough to surmount the tumult, the following speeches: (source)
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And we're gaining a much better tactical sense of how to do the surmounting.† (source)surmounting = overcoming
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Mysticism isn't difficult when you survive each second by surmounting open hostility.† (source)
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Surmounting this cliff demanded tremendous strength and skill; nothing so technically challenging had ever been climbed at such extreme altitude.† (source)
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Illumination came from a roaring fire beneath a handsome marble mantelpiece surmounted by a gilded mirror.† (source)surmounted = overcame
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Yes, that whopping two-year gap really is insurmountable, isn't it? (source)insurmountable = not able to be overcomestandard prefix: The prefix "in-" in insurmountable means not and reverses the meaning of surmountable. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
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But crazed with thirst and hunger he will surmount his fear, and he will do whatever is necessary to appease his need.† (source)surmount = overcome
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When they were able to arrange a meeting, surmounting all of Blanca's usual obstacles in addition to the new ones imposed by Pedro's job, they would find themselves more full of anguish than desire.† (source)surmounting = overcoming
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The dogs fall silent at the edge of my spell, and where the king's hall surmounts the town, the blind old Shaper, harp clutched tight to his fragile chest, stares futilely down, straight at me.† (source)surmounts = overcomes
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The touch of her hand had filled him with ecstasy; he had desired to enter into her soul so that he could share every thought with her and every feeling; he had suffered acutely because, when silence had fallen between them, a remark of hers showed how far their thoughts had travelled apart, and he had rebelled against the unsurmountable wall which seemed to divide every personality from every other.† (source)unsurmountable = not capable of being overcomestandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unsurmountable means not and reverses the meaning of surmountable. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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The hole where Airlock 1 used to be is huge, but surmountable.† (source)surmountable = capable of being overcomestandard suffix: The suffix "-able" means able to be. This is the same pattern you see in words like breakable, understandable, and comfortable.
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At eleven o'clock, I looked up to see a pair of pale and shapely legs supporting a tumult of pink marabou surmounted by a picture hat.† (source)surmounted = overcame
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Besides, it isn't in my nature to go down without a fight, even when things seem insurmountable.† (source)insurmountable = not able to be overcome
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And yet it's good that we have to surmount them, since it makes the end that much more beautiful.† (source)surmount = overcome
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