surmount

1. (transitive) To get or be over without touching or resting on; to overcome.Examples: "this difficulty may perhaps be surmounted by care and art"; "There are two realms: that of divine powers, another of the metadivine.¹ Even the gods are depicted as calling upon metadivine forces to surmount their own predestined limitations."; "Burkina Fasoan legislation surmounts one more step which sees in the organ created in this country and designated as the Superior Council of Information (S.C.I.), " an administrative authority"."transitive

2. (transitive) To cap; to sit on top of.Examples: "The boiler had a large dome over the firebox, inside the cab, surmounted by Ramsbottom safety valves."; "The ovolo surmounting the dentil course generally turns the corner by means of a carved acanthus leaf, the decorated cyma and cyma reversa being similarly treated at the corner."transitive