mountverb
uk/maʊnt/us/maʊnt/mount verb (INCREASE)
C2 [ I ] to gradually increase, rise, or get bigger:
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- Tension was mounting as the minutes went by.
- They worked harder and harder as the debts mounted.
- As the excitement mounted, the children became noisier.
- Amidst mounting tension, tribal leaders have agreed to meet.
- Anxiety for the missing climbers is mounting.
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Increasing and intensifying
- -ify
- a snowball effect idiom
- accretion
- accumulate
- accumulative
- add fuel to the fire idiom
- balloon
- bump
- dial
- growing
- heighten
- hot up
- increase
- pile
- rack
- scale sth up
- speed-up
- spurt
- step
- step sth up
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mount verb (GET ON)
C2 [ I or T ] to get on a horse, bicycle, etc.. in order to ride:
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Horse riding
- curry
- dismount
- dressage
- gymkhana
- high-spirited
- horse riding
- horseback riding
- horseshoe
- horsey
- jib at sth
- mounted
- paddock
- prance
- puissance
- rein sth in
- riding habit
- showjumping
- silk
- trot
- unsaddle
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mount verb (GO UP)
[ T ] to go up or onto:
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Moving upwards
- arise
- ascend
- ascent
- be on an upward/downward trajectory idiom
- bristle
- clamber
- climb
- come
- come up
- heave
- hoick
- levitate
- pull
- rear
- rise
- scale
- scramble
- shinny
- soar
- take off
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mount verb (ORGANIZE)
C2 [ T ] to organize and begin an activity or event:
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Managing and organizing
- act
- administer
- administration
- bureaucracy
- bureaucratic
- campaign
- have sth in hand idiom
- head sth up
- in hand idiom
- kaizen
- manage
- management
- restructure
- run the show idiom
- running
- shakedown
- square
- square sth/sb away
- stage
- stage-manage
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mount verb (FIX)
C2 [ T ] to fix something to a wall, in a frame, etc., so that it can be looked at or used:
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Fastening and tying
- attach
- be locked together idiom
- board sth up
- bolt
- bound
- bow 1
- buckle
- buckle up
- hobble
- ligature
- nail
- put sth up
- reef knot
- rivet
- rope
- tie
- truss
- twist tie
- tying
- yoke
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mount verb (GUARD)
[ T ] to place someone on guard:
to guard someone:
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Defending and protecting
- baby
- bandobast
- bastion
- biodefence
- cherish
- featherbed
- guard
- kill
- mollycoddle
- mother
- out of harm's way idiom
- overprotective
- patrol
- proof
- proof
- protect
- protective
- wet nurse
- wrap
- wrap sb (up) in cotton wool idiom
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Phrasal verb(s)
mountnoun [ C ]
uk/maʊnt/us/maʊnt/mount noun [ C ] (HORSE)
formal a horse:
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Horses & similar animals
- beast
- beast of burden idiom
- bronco
- brood mare
- brumby
- chestnut
- fetlock
- gelding
- horse-drawn
- hunter
- mane
- mare
- mule
- mustang
- nag
- piebald
- skewbald
- stud
- thoroughbred
- zebra
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mount noun [ C ] (FOR A PICTURE, ETC.)
something, such as a piece of card, that you put something on to show it:
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Photography
- airbrush
- aperture
- camera
- camera obscura
- camera-shy
- capture
- high-resolution
- hologram
- holography
- kinetoscope
- lo-res
- negative
- say cheese idiom
- selfie
- sharp
- shoot
- shutter
- slide
- SLR camera
- snapshot
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