exceed
verb/ɪkˈsiːd/
/ɪkˈsiːd/
(formal)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they exceed | /ɪkˈsiːd/ /ɪkˈsiːd/ |
| he / she / it exceeds | /ɪkˈsiːdz/ /ɪkˈsiːdz/ |
| past simple exceeded | /ɪkˈsiːdɪd/ /ɪkˈsiːdɪd/ |
| past participle exceeded | /ɪkˈsiːdɪd/ /ɪkˈsiːdɪd/ |
| -ing form exceeding | /ɪkˈsiːdɪŋ/ /ɪkˈsiːdɪŋ/ |
- exceed something to be greater than a particular number or amount
- The price will not exceed £100.
Extra Examples- Summer temperatures rarely exceed 27°C.
- Their numbers barely exceed 100 in the wild.
- The House voted by 327 votes to 93, comfortably exceeding the required two-thirds majority.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- considerably
- far
- greatly
- …
- be expected to
- be likely to
- be unlikely to
- …
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- exceed something to do more than the law or an order, etc. allows you to do
- She was exceeding the speed limit (= driving faster than is allowed).
- The officers had exceeded their authority.
- exceed expectations to be better than expected synonym surpass
- His achievements have exceeded expectations.
- The amount raised has far exceeded our wildest expectations.
Word Originlate Middle English (in the sense ‘go over (a boundary or specified point)’): from Old French exceder, from Latin excedere, from ex- ‘out’ + cedere ‘go’.
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