(v. i.) To rise above; to be higher than; to overtop.
(v. i.) To conquer; to overcome; as, to surmount difficulties or obstacles.
(v. i.) To surpass; to exceed.
Example Sentences:
(1) This report describes how the difficulties were surmounted, and how the National Technical Centre then proceeded to undertake activities to extend awareness of the ICIDH.
(2) In calf tracheae, ketanserin caused surmountable antagonism of the effects of 5-HT with a pKB of 9.5.
(3) The results indicate that metoclopramide is a potent, surmountable and selective antagonist of tryptamine receptors on rabbit cardiac sympathetic nerves.
(4) The inhibitory effect on degranulation could not be surmounted even by concentrations of PAF 10-fold higher than that of 1-acyl-2-acetyl-GPC.
(5) One line of tumour proved to be sensitive to inhibition by a histamine H2 receptor antagonist and a dopamine D2 antagonist but resistant to serotonin antagonists; the inhibition by histamine antagonists was surmountable by co-administration of histamine.
(6) Our experience indicated that: It is possible to increase and enrich dream activity in quantity and in substance in the course of the treatment; This approach can affect all of the components of the personality which have been in regression after injury; Dream analysis does not require complex cognitive abilities and surmounts the special difficulty these patients have in using language and abstract concepts; It is possible to bring to the surface inner and subconscious contents residing in the patient that were ignored before; and The residual content of the premorbid personality is also expressed, thus facilitating the patient's inner contact between his former identity and his new one.
(7) Barriers to the effective dissemination of HIV prevention education are identified and strategies that may be effective in surmounting these barriers and implementing culturally-appropriate HIV behavioral modification programs are described.
(8) We hope that through our efforts we can surmount these difficulties, improve the quality of medical care in our country, and create a more rational economic and scientific basis for future medical development and advances.
(9) Hence, these tetanic contractions are not due to a surmounting of the atropine-block by the increased release of acetylcholine following the 50 pulses.4.
(10) Be resolute, fear no sacrifice, and surmount every difficulty to win victory!” read one famous counsel.
(11) These data show that behavior-relevant information transmitted by GABAergic drugs surmounted that transmitted by cholinergic drugs which, in turn, surmounted behavior-relevant information transmitted by dopaminergic drugs.
(12) In Model II, this difficulty is surmounted, but the formula is no longer exact.
(13) Some fibers produced very small spikes surmounted on large EPPs.
(14) We reinvestigated if it was possible to reveal this phenomenon by carefully choosing a concentration of the alpha adrenoceptor blocker prazosin that would give a significant displacement while it still was possible to completely surmount the blockade by reasonable concentrations of norepinephrine.
(15) In the absence of U46619, 5-HT responses were mediated predominantly by 5-HT2-receptors as judged by potent, surmountable antagonism by the selective 5-HT2 receptor antagonists, spiperone and ketanserin.
(16) After summarizing the health situation in Honduras and describing the National Health Plan launched in 1973, the authors explain the changes that have come about in nursing, the difficulties that had to be surmounted to reach a new professional position, and the administrative decisions that had to be taken to devise a health policy.
(17) In this paper, SDZ 205-557 (2-methoxy-4-amino-5-chloro-benzoic acid 2-(diethylamino) ethyl ester) is characterized as the first potent, selective and surmountable antagonist at 5-HT4 receptors in the isolated guinea pig ileum.
(18) The LV mechanical disadvantage of shock hearts was not correlated with changes in beating frequency, active state duration, or tissue water content; neither was it surmounted by pyruvate nor by maximally effective increases in coronary flow, diastolic stretch, or extracellular Ca2+ concentration.
(19) Trazodone and spiperone were apparently simple competitive antagonists since they produced antagonism that was surmountable over the concentration range studied and, in each tissue, their apparent affinity appeared to be independent of the antagonist concentration.
(20) There is an energy barrier at the channel entrance; if the ion could surmount this barrier, it would be quite stable within the channel.
Vanquish
Definition:
(v. t.) To conquer, overcome, or subdue in battle, as an enemy.
(v. t.) Hence, to defeat in any contest; to get the better of; to put down; to refute.
(n.) A disease in sheep, in which they pine away.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Scot has spoken many times of his ill fortune in reaching his peak at a time when his vanquished opponent Novak Djokovic, Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal have dominated.
(2) You only leave the ring, even when bloody, at the end; whether you are victorious or vanquished,” he said.
(3) His rapid build-up in Syria is not, primarily, about vanquishing Isis, although Russia certainly has good reason to fear Islamist extremism.
(4) They're camped outside Poundbury, Charles's "traditional" village (built in 1993), and the only way they will be vanquished is if Charles takes his blunderbuss and heads into the forest to execute some of them.
(5) On a night when Jerome Sinclair came off the bench to become Liverpool's youngest ever player at the age of 16 years and six days – he is so new to the scene that the club got his christian name wrong on the team-sheet and put him down as Jordan – Nuri Sahin endeared himself to the travelling supporters with two goals to help the holders vanquish West Brom and secure a place in the last 16, where Rodgers will come up against Swansea City, his former club.
(6) Using armoured vehicles supplied by the US to the vanquished Iraqi army, Isis has taken 12 villages in the Aleppo countryside in the past fortnight and is threatening to turn its guns on the opposition at the same time as it tries to engage the Syrian regime.
(7) Recall that "three dozen" -- that's "three dozen" -- current and former Obama aides ran to the New York Times in May to heap praise on Obama's supposedly judicious though resolute use of drones to vanquish America's enemies.
(8) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Hillary Clinton: I’ve had more votes than ‘disturbing’ Donald Trump For Clinton, the five states voting on Tuesday offer a chance to vanquish the Vermont senator, and his unexpectedly strong leftwing challenge, with a more optimistic diagnosis.
(9) The plotters are biding their time, not vanquished.
(10) More pertinent will be the ramifications of this result for victors and vanquished in the weeks ahead.
(11) One of the last areas of mental competition in which humanity had an advantage over machines will have been vanquished.
(12) Although Adili Wuxor has never vanquished any ghosts, his rise to national stardom has, for many Uighurs, comparable significance.
(13) Hypertension and ischemic heart disease vanquished many of the survivors of the seige of Leningrad.
(14) How should we go about making sense of an obscurantist crime the better to vanquish it?
(15) There was also nostalgia for simpler times in the form of the immense popularity of western films and radio shows, like The Lone Ranger , in which heroes were easily identifiable, problems were solved with a quick fight and villains easily identified and eventually vanquished.
(16) Twenty-seven Colonials came to the plate and the Virginia pitcher vanquished them all, pitching a perfect game.
(17) Why should the leader, having vanquished his enemies, reward their failure with any kind of institutional veto over appointments?
(18) The novel reads like a manifesto for his obsessions: London, both everyday and arcane; a radical political sensibility; and a determination to resist the standard tropes of fantasy whereby quests are followed, chosen ones fulfil their destiny and evil is vanquished.
(19) Italy had never before conquered on penalties in the World Cup finals and were even vanquished by France in that fashion at the quarter-final stage eight years ago.
(20) Little wonder, then, that after Republican candidate Donald Trump won the nomination in South Carolina – seizing the lead and vanquishing competitor Jeb Bush – his first stop to boast was at a convention center in Atlanta.