exceed
/ɪkˈsiːd/ verb B2- To be larger, greater than (something). · The company's 2005 revenue exceeds that of 2004.
- To be better than (something). · The quality of her essay has exceeded my expectations.· Descriptions of nature that far exceed anything else we've heard.
- To go beyond (some limit); to surpass; to be longer than. · Your password cannot exceed eight characters.
- To predominate.
He/she/it exceeds · Past exceeded · Past participle exceeded · -ing form exceeding
Verb forms
- Base form
- exceed
- He/she/it
- exceeds
- Past
- exceeded
- Past participle
- exceeded
- -ing form
- exceeding
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“Sir,” said Franz, “I regret much that such a question has been raised in the presence of Mademoiselle Valentine; I have never inquired the amount of her fortune, which, however limited it may be, exceeds mine.
“Upon my word, child!” exclaimed the angry marquise, “your folly exceeds all bounds.
THE HARES, oppressed by their own exceeding timidity and weary of the perpetual alarm to which they were exposed, with one accord determined to put an end to themselves and their troubles by jumping from a lofty precipice into a deep lake below.
AT ONE TIME a very large and strong Wolf was born among the wolves, who exceeded all his fellow-wolves in strength, size, and swiftness, so that they unanimously decided to call him “Lion.” The Wolf, with a lack of sense proportioned to his enormous size, thought that they gave him this name in earnest, and, leaving his own race, consorted exclusively with the lions.
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