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to mount

to mount

114 4.3
To organize and start an event or campaign
  • verb
  • /maʊnt/
translation icon : lanzar
  • The team is ready to mount a campaign to raise awareness about climate change.
  • mount a campaign
  • mount an attack
  • mount a response

Still, the French and Serbian troops bravely mounted defenses throughout October.

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Examples

  • Mike was lost in the desert, so they mounted this huge rescue effort.

  • The Zelaya government mounted arguably the most powerful challenge to this state of affairs.

    Academic text (2011)
  • With you we could mount a real defense.

  • Anything that would make you believe they could mount a strike like this?

    Fiction book (1996)
  • Now, as we mount this resistance, who should we be listening to?

  • So will we have the courage to mount our own quiet revolution?

  • And I think she will mount a more robust challenge to Donald Trump.

  • This is called mounting an offensive.

  • He doesn't want to mount a presidential campaign in four weeks.

  • Starting in 2009, strong grassroots resistance has been mounting against the growing "crimmigration" system.

    Academic text (2012)

Synonyms

to put on
vsto mount
223 2.8

To organize and present an event or show

also covers starting broader actions beyond performances or shows
to put up
vsto mount
75 3.4

Offer strong resistance, for example by fighting

focuses on arranging and starting actions rather than resisting
to mount a campaign
vsto mount
3 4.3

To start a planned set of actions to achieve a goal

is more general used for events attacks or other actions
to start a crusade
vsto mount
1 7.9

To begin a determined public campaign to change something

is less intense and applies to ordinary beginnings as well

Antonyms

206 2.4

To stop moving or make something stop moving

Phrasal Verbs

7 4.0

To get onto the back of an animal like a horse to ride it

To start a planned set of actions to achieve a goal

Attach a camera firmly to a stand or other support

Compounds

10 2.3

The highest mountain in the world on the border between Nepal and China, rising about 8,848 meters

A mountain in South Dakota with the carved faces of four US presidents

Sermon on the Mount
  • Literature
5 6.2

A long talk by Jesus that gives key moral teachings in the Bible books Matthew and Luke

4 4.1

A mountain in southern Sinai that people believe is where Moses received the Ten Commandments

Mount Olympus
  • Literature
1 4.6

The highest mountain in Greece that ancient Greeks thought was the home of the Greek gods

The highest mountain in Africa, in northeastern Tanzania, that rises to 5,895 meters

A tall mountain in south-central Alaska that is the highest peak in North America

A volcano near Naples in southern Italy famous for its AD 79 eruption that buried Pompeii and Herculaneum

1 7.3

A hill in Jerusalem with ancient sacred sites often used to mean the city

A mountain ridge by the Mediterranean Sea in northern Israel with important biblical history

Former official name of Tajikistan's highest peak, now called Ismoil Somoni Peak

Mount Cook lily
  • New Zealand
8.6

A New Zealand plant with large white flowers that comes back each year in mountains

A high mountain in southwest Washington in the Cascade Range

A piece of land in the northeast of Greece with many Greek Orthodox monasteries

A sleeping volcano in central Honshu, Japan, that is the country's highest peak

The second highest mountain in the world on the border of Pakistan and China, called K2

Mount Parnassus
  • Literature
8.2

A mountain in central Greece linked with poetry, music and artistic inspiration

Mount Pisgah
  • Literature
8.5

A mountain in Jordan where Moses saw the Promised Land, also used as the name for hills and parks

A national park in Washington state with a high volcano, glaciers, and mountain lakes

Mount Rainier
  • Specialized
7.2

A system that lets computers write files to writable CDs in the background and fix bad parts on the disc

A nickname for the United States state South Dakota

The highest mountain in Mexico, an inactive volcano between Mexico City and Veracruz

A group of four people seen as the most important in a field

An active volcano in western Washington known for its 1980 eruption

Mount Tacoma
  • Archaic
7.9

An old name for Mount Rainier, a high mountain in Washington State

A Roman Catholic religious group that dates from the 1100s and is devoted to the Virgin Mary and prayer

A modern speech or document treated as a complete moral guide

How Ambitious

to orchestrate
101 7.1
to launch
504 3.7
to mount
114 4.3
to set up
983 2.7
to start
1.0

Surface Forms

mount infinitive
mounted past
mounted past participle
mounting present participle
mounts third person singular

Etymology

Mount meaning 'to organize and begin' comes from the sense of 'setting up' or 'raising' in Old French monter 'to climb' or 'set up'. So to mount a campaign is to put it 'in place' and start it.