exceed
to go beyond in quantity, degree, rate, etc.: to exceed the speed limit.
to go beyond the bounds or limits of: to exceed one's understanding.
to surpass; be superior to; excel: Her performance exceeded all the others.
to be greater, as in quantity or degree.
to surpass others; excel or be superior.
Origin of exceed
1Other words for exceed
Other words from exceed
- ex·ceed·a·ble, adjective
- ex·ceed·er, noun
- su·per·ex·ceed, verb (used without object)
- un·ex·ceed·a·ble, adjective
- un·ex·ceed·ed, adjective
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How to use exceed in a sentence
Earlier this month, the San Lorenzo Valley Water District, which serves areas affected by the CZA Lightning Complex Fire, reported levels of benzene—a known carcinogen—exceeding state health standards.
California wildfires may give way to massive mudslides | Ula Chrobak | September 17, 2020 | Popular-ScienceIn the worst-case emissions scenario, that number could almost double in some regions, exceeding 15 days each fall.
Suppressing fires has failed. Here’s what California needs to do instead. | James Temple | September 17, 2020 | MIT Technology ReviewNearly nine in every 10 exceeded the recommended two-hour daily limit on non-school screen time.
Healthy screen time is one challenge of distance learning | Kathryn Hulick | September 11, 2020 | Science News For StudentsThe honorees on Fortune’s 2020 40 Under 40 certainly know how to get things done, so we asked them to tell us more about how they set and exceed their ambitious goals.
17 extremely useful productivity tips from this year’s 40 Under 40 | Maria Aspan | September 6, 2020 | FortuneUS government debt as a ratio of GDP is poised to exceed 100% for the full fiscal year, making it the first time that’s happened since 1946, according to projections from the Center for Management and Budget.
Gender roles exceed the biological circumstances of childbirth and they are, perhaps, much less likely to change.
A season of Game of Thrones tells its story over ten hours, and only a video game adaptation could match or exceed that.
‘Game of Thrones’ Interactive FanFiction: Whoops, My Friend Was Speared in the Throat | Alec Kubas-Meyer | December 13, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTSix months out of the year, the temperatures exceed 100 degrees.
Heart of Darkness: Into Afghanistan’s Taliban Valley | Matt Trevithick, Daniel Seckman | November 15, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTSome rights groups suspect the numbers exceed 200,000 prisoners, including women and children.
Escaping Assad’s Rape Prisons: A Survivor Tells Her Story | Jamie Dettmer | October 28, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIndeed, it is troubling to see highly shared medical campaigns whose shares far exceed donations.
No law of that country must exceed in words the number of letters in their alphabet, which consists only in two-and-twenty.
Gulliver's Travels | Jonathan SwiftBut, he finally secured the address of a company who would manufacture a book to exceed 300 pages for fifty cents per book.
The Homesteader | Oscar MicheauxIn the great majority of cases megaloblasts exceed normoblasts in number.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis | James Campbell ToddThe expense of altering the engine, and forking the water to bottom, and proving the mine, will not exceed 1000l.
Life of Richard Trevithick, Volume II (of 2) | Francis TrevithickIt should not exceed the ounce of tincture: about two drachms may be added after using it for paper.
British Dictionary definitions for exceed
/ (ɪkˈsiːd) /
to be superior to (a person or thing), esp in size or quality; excel
(tr) to go beyond the limit or bounds of: to exceed one's income; exceed a speed limit
to be greater in degree or quantity than (a person or thing)
Origin of exceed
1Derived forms of exceed
- exceedable, adjective
- exceeder, noun
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