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Definition
overcome (to successfully deal with an obstacle)
- My eye passed all other objects to rest on those most remote, the blue peaks; it was those I longed to surmount; all within their boundary of rock and heath seemed prison-ground, exile limits.Chapter 10 (22% in)
There are no more uses of "surmount" in Jane Eyre.
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