EXCEED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does exceed mean? 

• EXCEED (verb)
  The verb EXCEED has 3 senses:

1. be greater in scope or size than some standard

2. be superior or better than some standard

3. be or do something to a greater degree

  Familiarity information: EXCEED used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EXCEED (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they exceed    ... he / she / it exceeds   
Past simple: exceeded   
Past participle: exceeded   
-ing form: exceeding   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Be greater in scope or size than some standard

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

exceed; surpass; transcend

Context example:

Their loyalty exceeds their national bonds

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "exceed"):

overgrow (grow too large)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Be superior or better than some standard

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

exceed; go past; overstep; pass; top; transcend

Context example:

She topped her performance of last year

Hypernyms (to "exceed" is one way to...):

excel; stand out; surpass (distinguish oneself)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

exceedance ((geology) the probability that an earthquake will generate a level of ground motion that exceeds a specified reference level during a given exposure time)

excessive (beyond normal limits)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Be or do something to a greater degree

Classified under:

Verbs of fighting, athletic activities

Synonyms:

exceed; outdo; outgo; outmatch; outperform; outstrip; surmount; surpass

Context example:

This car outperforms all others in its class

Hypernyms (to "exceed" is one way to...):

beat; beat out; crush; shell; trounce; vanquish (come out better in a competition, race, or conflict)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "exceed"):

outgrow (grow faster than)

outwear (last longer than others)

outmarch (march longer distances and for a longer time than)

shame (surpass or beat by a wide margin)

outfox (outdo someone in trickery)

out-herod (surpass someone in cruelty or evil)

outbrave (be braver than)

outweigh (be heavier than)

outrange (have a greater range than (another gun))

outshine (attract more attention and praise than others)

better; break (surpass in excellence)

outpace (surpass in speed)

outsell (be sold more often than other, similar products)

outsell (sell more than others)

outdraw (draw a gun faster, or best someone in a gunfight)

outsail (sail faster or better than)

outroar (roar louder than)

outcry; outshout (shout louder than)

beat; circumvent; outfox; outsmart; outwit; overreach (beat through cleverness and wit)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

Derivation:

excessive (beyond normal limits)

 Context examples 

But with the revised estimates of water from the new study, the amount of water going in seems to greatly exceed the amount of water coming out.

(Seismic study reveals huge amount of water dragged into Earth’s interior, National Science Foundation)

This is the first time any human enterprise has exceeded the distance of a marathon on the surface of another world.

(Opportunity Mars Rover Passes Marathon Distance, NASA)

Once negative processes exceed positive ones, protein misfolding becomes rampant and cell death occurs.

(Study reveals how collapse of protein processes is driver of aging and death, National Science Foundation)

It has revealed that there are macrofibril structures with a diameter exceeding 10 nanometres in both softwood and hardwood species, and confirmed they are common across all trees studied.

(Revealing the nanostructure of wood could help raise height limits for wooden skyscrapers, University of Cambridge)

MAG data indicates the magnetic field greatly exceeded expectations at 7.766 Gauss, about 10 times stronger than the strongest magnetic field found on Earth.

(First Science Results from NASA’s Juno Mission, NASA)

About 30 percent larger than Earth, Kepler-90i is so close to its star that its average surface temperature is believed to exceed 800 degrees Fahrenheit, on par with Mercury.

(Artificial Intelligence, NASA Data Used to Discover Eighth Planet Circling Distant Star, NASA)

The B-prolymphocytes must exceed 55% of lymphoid cells in the blood.

(B-Cell Prolymphocytic Leukemia, NCI Thesaurus/WHO)

Last year, the U.S. experienced 15 weather and climate disasters, each with losses exceeding $1 billion for a total of $46 billion.

(2016 was 2nd warmest year on record for U.S., NOAA)

The survey exceeded all expectations and imaged the depression in stunning detail: a distinctly circular rim, central uplift, disturbed and undisturbed ice layering, and basal debris.

(Unexpected Discovery Under Greenland Ice, NASA)

According to the WHO, the number of cases of measles globally in the first half of this year exceeded those of any other whole year since 2006.

(Samoan government temporarily shuts down for nationwide measles vaccination drive, Wikinews)