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# surmounted

«surmounted» in Mova's school dictionary: **got over or overcome** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (past form of surmount: surmounted; also used as an adjective: surmounted by)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Surmounted means got over or overcome. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/surmounted/#m1)

2) Surmounted by means having something placed on top, such as a crown on a tower. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/surmounted/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in descriptions, an object is described as sitting on top of another thing; the word is formal and old-fashioned

### examples

- The hill was surmounted by a tall tower. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/surmounted/#x1)
- His hat was surmounted by a red feather. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/surmounted/#x2)
- The gate was surmounted with stone birds. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/surmounted/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «surmounted» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/surmounted/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.