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The Meaning of exceed
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(v. t.) To go beyond; to proceed beyond the given or supposed limit or measure of; to outgo; to surpass; -- used both in a good and a bad sense; as, one man exceeds another in bulk, stature, weight, power, skill, etc.; one offender exceeds another in villainy; his rank exceeds yours.
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(v. i.) To go too far; to pass the proper bounds or measure.
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(v. i.) To be more or greater; to be paramount.
Synonyms
surmount
,
outstrip
,
outmatch
,
outgo
,
go by
,
travel by
,
outperform
,
stand out
,
overstep
,
top
,
excel
,
go past
,
transcend
,
pass
,
pass by
,
outdo
,
surpass
,
run
,
perish
,
elapse
,
make pass
,
lead
,
put across
,
draw
,
evanesce
,
occur
,
die
,
transgress
,
trespass
,
excrete
,
turn over
,
pass away
,
spend
,
slide by
,
top off
,
go
,
hand
,
legislate
,
happen
,
egest
,
return
,
slip away
,
drop dead
,
make it
,
authorize
,
pop off
,
fleet
,
devolve
,
cash in one's chips
,
kick the bucket
,
give
,
fall out
,
hap
,
slip by
,
top out
,
go on
,
sink
,
eliminate
,
croak
,
lapse
,
fade
,
crown
,
pass off
,
give-up the ghost
,
pinch
,
blow over
,
take place
,
expire
,
overhaul
,
go through
,
reach
,
communicate
,
come about
,
choke
,
go across
,
snuff it
,
overtake
,
glide by
,
extend
,
decease
,
fall
,
clear
,
exit
,
conk
,
buy the farm
,
pass along
,
authorise
,
go along
,
guide
,
pass on
,
master
,
outflank
,
overcome
,
scoop
,
get over
,
distance
,
best
,
scale
,
outdistance
,
trump
,
subdue
Rhymes
accede
,
agreed
,
aidid
,
airspeed
,
alwaleed
,
aniseed
,
appleseed
,
aristede
,
aristide
,
bead
,
bede
,
beede
,
bleed
,
brede
,
breed
,
cede
,
centipede
,
concede
,
cottonseed
,
creed
,
decreed
,
dede
,
deed
,
degreed
,
disagreed
,
duckweed
,
ede
,
fede
,
feed
,
fireweed
,
flaxseed
,
frede
,
freed
,
freid
,
fried
,
friede
,
gaede
,
ganymede
,
gilead
,
glede
,
gleed
,
greed
,
guaranteed
,
hamid
,
heed
,
impede
,
inbreed
,
indeed
,
intercede
,
keyed
,
knead
,
kneed
,
laclede
,
lead
,
leed
,
linseed
,
lipide
,
mead
,
meade
,
milkweed
,
misdeed
,
mislead
,
misread
,
need
,
nied
,
nosebleed
,
oilseed
,
peed
,
pitied
,
plead
,
pokeweed
,
precede
,
proceed
,
proofread
,
prophesied
,
ragweed
,
rapeseed
,
rasheed
,
rashid
,
read
,
recede
,
reed
,
reid
,
reread
,
reseed
,
ried
,
riede
,
schmead
,
screed
,
seaweed
,
secede
,
seed
,
shaheed
,
siegfried
,
sinead
,
skied
,
smead
,
snead
,
sneed
,
speed
,
stampede
,
steed
,
streed
,
succeed
,
swede
,
teide
,
thede
,
thiede
,
tiede
,
treed
,
tweed
,
vahid
,
wahid
,
waleed
,
walid
,
weed
,
wied
,
wrede