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Exceed   /ɪksˈid/   Listen
verb
Exceed  v. t.  (past & past part. exceeded; pres. part. exceeding)  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. "Name the time, but let it not Exceed three days." "Observes how much a chintz exceeds mohair."
Synonyms: To outdo; surpass; excel; transcend; outstrip; outvie; overtop.


Exceed  v. i.  
1.
To go too far; to pass the proper bounds or measure. "In our reverence to whom, we can not possibly exceed." "Forty stripes he may give him, and not exceed."
2.
To be more or greater; to be paramount.





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"Exceed" Quotes from Famous Books



... appraised for a bond-issue and it was necessary to extend its limits considerably in order to include a valuation of one half million dollars required by the underwriters. On a summer's evening at the present time a thousand "pleasure" automobiles may be found parked along its streets and these exceed in valuation that of the entire town only twenty years ago and equal it to-day. There are economists who would argue that the automobile has paid for itself by its usefulness, but the fact still exists that a great amount of ...
— Artificial Light - Its Influence upon Civilization • M. Luckiesh
... probably added to give a more anthropoid cast to the figure. The slight projections along the sides of the body in Pl. 4, fig. 2, probably do not represent the legs. In another drawing (Tro-Cortesianus 44b) these are also present but further reduced so as not to exceed the heavy fringe of spines surrounding the body. In Pl. 4, fig. 1, the fringe alone appears. The formidable nature of the scorpion is of course due to the poisonous sting at the tip of the attenuated abdomen or "tail." In the Maya pictures this portion ...
— Animal Figures in the Maya Codices • Alfred M. Tozzer and Glover M. Allen
... number of Spaniards, then invading Peru, did not exceed two hundred and fifty. The Peruvians were daily becoming more deeply exasperated. With such a number of men, and no fortified base to fall back upon, Pizarro did not deem it safe to enter upon a plundering tour into the ...
— Ferdinand De Soto, The Discoverer of the Mississippi - American Pioneers and Patriots • John S. C. Abbott
... became of our fellow-lodgers I never learned, but the venture coming to naught, the last I heard of the beautiful high-bred lady manager, she was serving as a stewardess on an ocean liner. Nothing, however, could exceed the luxury, the felicity and the good company of those memorable three months chez ...
— Marse Henry, Complete - An Autobiography • Henry Watterson
... this: As far as doth the Capitol exceed The meanest house in Rome, so far my son, Whom you have banished, does exceed ...
— Characteristics of Women - Moral, Poetical, and Historical • Anna Jameson


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