overmount

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adjective

Mounted over something else.

Opposite
undermount
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Meanings

adjectiveovermount (not comparable)
  1. not comparableMounted over something else.

    Antonyms: undermount

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

present singular third person overmounts · participle present overmounting · participle past overmounted · past overmounted

  1. transitiveTo tower over; to go or rise higher than.

    the pretty purple ground-nut, which, despising its name, overmounts the tallest shrubs

    1845, Sylvester Judd, Margaret: a Tale of Real and Ideal
nounovermount (plural overmounts)

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.

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectiveMounted over something else.

Opposite
undermount

Origin

From over- + mount. Compare surmount.

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Cite this entry
APA

overmount. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/overmount

MLA

“overmount.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/overmount. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “overmount,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/overmount.

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