mount
                     // mounts, mounting, mounted
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                     To mount a campaign or event means to organize it and make it take place.
                     No rescue operations could be mounted.
                     We mounted an exhibition of recent books.
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               2
                     If something is mounting, it is increasing.
                     Social problems in modern society are mounting.
                     The temperature mounted rapidly.
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                     ...mounting unemployment.
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                     To mount something means to go to the top of it; a formal use
                     Walter mounted the steps and pressed the bell.
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               4
                     If you mount a horse, you climb on to its back.
                     The brothers watched as she mounted the mare.
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                     If you mount an object in a particular place, you fix it there.
                     The sword was mounted in a mahogany case.
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                     Mount is used as part of the name of a mountain.
                     ...Mount Erebus.
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                     If you mount a guard over something, you get someone to guard it. If you
                     mount guard over it, you guard it yourself.
                     Strong police guards were mounted at all hospitals.
                     She had been asked to mount guard over a number of dogs.
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