Surmount vs. Overcome

Surmountverb

(transitive) To get over; to overcome.

Overcomeverb

(transitive) To surmount (a physical or abstract obstacle); to prevail over, to get the better of.

‘to overcome enemies in battle’;

Surmountverb

(transitive) To cap; to sit on top off.

Overcomeverb

(transitive) To win or prevail in some sort of battle, contest, etc.

‘We shall overcome.’;

Surmountverb

To rise above; to be higher than; to overtop.

‘The mountains of Olympus, Athos, and Atlas, overreach and surmount all winds and clouds.’;

Overcomeverb

To come or pass over; to spread over.

‘I was overcome with anger.’;

Surmountverb

To conquer; to overcome; as, to surmount difficulties or obstacles.

Overcomeverb

To overflow; to surcharge.

Surmountverb

To surpass; to exceed.

‘What surmounts the reachOf human sense I shall delineate.’;

Overcomenoun

(Scotland) The burden or recurring theme in a song.

Surmountverb

get on top of; deal with successfully;

‘He overcame his shyness’;

Overcomenoun

(Scotland) A surplus.

Surmountverb

be on top of;

‘The scarf surmounted the gown’;

Overcomeverb

To get the better of; to surmount; to conquer; to subdue; as, to overcome enemies in battle.

‘This wretched woman overcomeOf anguish, rather than of crime, hath been.’;

Surmountverb

reach the highest point of;

‘We scaled the Mont Blanc’;

Overcomeverb

To overflow; to surcharge.

Surmountverb

be or do something to a greater degree;

‘her performance surpasses that of any other student I know’; ‘She outdoes all other athletes’; ‘This exceeds all my expectations’; ‘This car outperforms all others in its class’;

Overcomeverb

To come or pass over; to spread over.

‘And overcome us like a summer's cloud.’;

Overcomeverb

To gain the superiority; to be victorious.

Overcomeverb

win a victory over;

‘You must overcome all difficulties’; ‘defeat your enemies’; ‘He overcame his shyness’; ‘She conquered here fear of mice’; ‘He overcame his infirmity’; ‘Her anger got the better of her and she blew up’;

Overcomeverb

get on top of; deal with successfully;

‘He overcame his shyness’;

Overcomeverb

overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli

Overcomeverb

overcome, usually through no fault or weakness of the person that is overcome;

‘Heart disease can get the best of us’;

Overcomeadjective

rendered powerless especially by an excessive amount or profusion of something;

‘a desk flooded with applications’; ‘felt inundated with work’; ‘too much overcome to notice’; ‘a man engulfed by fear’; ‘swamped by work’;