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overmount

overmount adjective: mounted over something else.

overmount: mounted over something else
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Adjective

overmount (not comparable)

  1. Mounted over something else.
    Antonyms:
    undermount

Verb

overmount (third-person singular simple present overmounts, present participle overmounting, simple past and past participle overmounted)

  1. (transitive) To tower over; to go or rise higher than.
    • the pretty purple ground-nut, which, despising its name, overmounts the tallest shrubs1845, Sylvester Judd, Margaret: a Tale of Real and Ideal

Noun

overmount (plural overmounts)

  1. A piece of shaped cardboard used to prevent the glass of the frame from lying too closely upon an engraving or a picture.

Antonyms of overmount

Forms of overmount

Verb
third-person singular presentovermounts
present participleovermounting
past participleovermounted
pastovermounted
Noun
pluralovermounts

Origin of overmount

From over- + mount. Compare surmount.

Questions about overmount

What does overmount mean?
Overmount means mounted over something else.
What part of speech is overmount?
Overmount can be an adjective, a verb or a noun.

Words near overmount in the dictionary

  1. overmould
  2. overmoulded
  3. overmoulding
  4. overmouldings
  5. overmoulds
  6. overmount
  7. Overmountain Man
  8. Overmountain Men
  9. overmounted
  10. overmounting
  11. overmounts

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