Surmounting is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SURMOUNTING in dictionary:

VERB:
• overcome (a difficulty or obstacle)
• stand or be placed on top of
NOUN:
• the act of surmounting
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to get over or across

Words related to SURMOUNTING

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Words that contain SURMOUNTING

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How to use SURMOUNTING in a sentence

• In surmounting his difficulties he showed extraordinary tact and energy.
• It was the surmounting of moral difficulties which gives to Columbus his true greatness as a man of genius and resources.
• The anticipation, in fact, of the glory of surmounting them was one of the main inducements which led him to embark in the enterprise.
• The diamonds are perhaps the finest as regards quality, but there is a roughly cut ruby surmounting the imperial crown, said to be the largest in the world.
• This arrangement gives a desirable oval effect to the face, the sharp prominence of the chin being counteracted by the surmounting puffs.
• Surmounting a weathered cliff to our left, we paused upon the summit to look upon the scene around us.
• Surmounting the framework of the press was a bronze eagle with wings out-spread for flight.
• No smeared small boy was required to ink its forms and no surmounting bronze eagle was reported to scream for beer when the last paper was run off.
• This was, however, the course which he chose, as the only mode of surmounting what he hoped might prove the last obstacle to his voyage of discovery.
• As she surveyed herself in the little swing mirror surmounting the old-fashioned mahogany bureau she suddenly bent forward and looked closely at the brooch.
• Angels are above, and surmounting the doorway is Christ.
• A good pioneer must forge ahead, surmounting one by one each obstacle that rose in the path.
• Surmounting indescribable hazards and hardships he walked the pavement of New York.
• Surmounting those on the highest point he planted seven of his great siege guns.
• Lenz practically walked across China, surmounting hardships and dangers that few men would venture to face.
• Surmounting the belfry, was a cross painted with luminous paint.
• The attached angle-shafts of piers are found here for the first time, and their capitals are enriched, as also the frieze surmounting the walls, with other conventional patterns.
• Cross surmounting two vases, nature and art, 783-u.
• Here therefore is that Difficulty which Human Understanding is not capable of surmounting.
• Washington had confidence in the people of the country and in himself, but the difficulties in the way were huge, and the means of surmounting them slight.
• The distance to the ocean was uncertain, and their course to it meant surmounting ridge after ridge of the intervening mountains.
• If he had won her heart he felt sure of surmounting the imaginary objection to his suit, and he resolved on a bold stroke.
• Lying near is an iron shield with two similar rings surmounting it.
• The captain was distinguished from the rest only by his turban, which looked ridiculous enough, surmounting his half-clad form.
• At last they came to what looked like a high hill with a wall-like cliff surmounting it.
• I could restrain myself no longer, but clambered over the gilded ornaments surmounting the grated gate-way and leaped down into the garden whence the song proceeded.
• He was then in his best years, brown-haired, dark-eyed, rather short-necked, with a full strong beard, his intellectual face, an Elizabethan face, surmounting a sturdy body.
• It is by surmounting difficulties, not by sinking under them, that we discover our fortitude.
• Surmounting this picturesque pedestal is an obelisk of black-veined marble on a granite base, the whole rising some seven feet from the ground.
• He found an agent of the Underground Rail Road, and after surmounting various difficulties, this point was settled.
• The next step toward surmounting these difficulties would be to give the shell a substantial kernel.
• A high tower, called the Eagle Tower, stood in the midst, surmounting all the rest.

Similar words containing SURMOUNT without suffix ing

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