to exceed
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4.1
- verb
- /ɪkˈsiːd/
:
superar
- The total cost of Richard and Lydia's wedding exceeded early estimates.
- exceed expectations
- meet and exceed
- far exceed
Does my product meet and exceed your expectations?
- Does my product meet and exceed your expectations?
- Like I said, her love for God exceeds all understanding.
- Let me repeat, stress happens when your current capacity exceeds the demand.
- Tuberculosis, for example, is now the largest cause of death, exceeding AIDS and malaria.
- It's the brand building value of creating an experience that exceeds all expectations.
- Again, if the levels exceed a certain threshold.
Examples
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You have more than exceeded my expectations.
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The efficiencies of the production and recycling units far exceeded their designers' expectations.
Fiction book (1998) -
This year, I would like to exceed that.
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Does my product meet and exceed your expectations?
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Now, their numbers exceeded those at the start of the campaign.
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Right now, there are multiple rogue nations with technologies that far exceed our own.
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In 2010, the total number of Hispanics in the U.S. far exceeded the number of blacks.
Academic text (2011) -
Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.
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The results of the experiment exceeded our initial predictions.
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His score in the final exam exceeded all of his previous records.
Synonyms
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3.6
To exceed a limit or what people expect
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2.4
To be better than others in a contest or ranking
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3.4
To be better than a set standard
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6.8
To go beyond a limit or expectation
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4.6
To be better than another person or thing
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4.8
Do better than someone or something
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3.7
To do more than is required to help others or complete a task
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3.8
Be better than someone at something
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6.2
To go beyond what you are allowed to do
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6.8
To become faster, better, or larger than another
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5.3
Go past a limit or planned time
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3.5
Be better than a limit or what people expected
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5.3
To do better than people expect and have more success
Antonyms
How Far
Surface Forms
Morphology
exceed = cede (opaque) = ex + ceed
Although historically analyzable as ex- + cede, the root 'ceed/cede' is not a productive, familiar standalone base for most learners, so the connection is not readily derivable.
Etymology
Exceed comes from Latin parts ex- 'out' and cedere 'to go', and the same ceed appears in everyday words like proceed and succeed. So to exceed is to 'go out' past a limit or to go beyond what is expected or allowed.