Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • transitive verb To be greater than, as in number or degree; surpass.
  • transitive verb To go beyond the limits of.
  • transitive verb To be better than or superior to: synonym: excel.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To pass or go beyond; proceed beyond the given or supposed limit, measure, or quantity of: as, the task exceeds his strength; he has exceeded his authority.
  • To surpass; be superior to; excel.
  • Synonyms To transcend, outdo, outvie, outstrip.
  • To go too far; pass the proper bounds; go over any given limit, number, or measure: as, to exceed in eating or drinking.
  • To bear the greater proportion; be more or larger; predominate.
  • To excel.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • intransitive verb To go too far; to pass the proper bounds or measure.
  • intransitive verb To be more or greater; to be paramount.
  • transitive verb 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.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb transitive To be larger, greater than (something).
  • verb transitive To be better than (something).
  • verb transitive To go beyond (some limit); to surpass, outstrip or transcend.
  • verb intransitive To predominate
  • verb intransitive, obsolete To overdo

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb be or do something to a greater degree
  • verb be superior or better than some standard
  • verb be greater in scope or size than some standard

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English exceden, from Old French exceder, from Latin excēdere : ex-, ex- + cēdere, to go; see ked- in Indo-European roots.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Middle English exceden, from Old French exceder, from Latin excedere ("to go out, go forth, go beyond a certain limit, overpass, exceed, transgress"), from ex- ("out, forth") with cedere ("to go"); see cede and compare accede etc.

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Examples

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  • I do appreciate how the media is phrasing this as "Did Sarah Palin exceed expectations" and not "Did Sarah Palin attract any undecided voters".

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  • It's just that when it the transaction costs of negotiating other terms exceed the expected benefit of either party in attempting to do so, they do not.

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  • Rationally, on a large scale, housing-cost growth cannot over the long term exceed the average income growth of the community.

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  • If then syllogisms are taken with respect to their main premisses, every syllogism will consist of an even number of premisses and an odd number of terms (for the terms exceed the premisses by one), and the conclusions will be half the number of the premisses.

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  • If then syllogisms are taken with respect to their main premisses, every syllogism will consist of an even number of premisses and an odd number of terms (for the terms exceed the premisses by one), and the conclusions will be half the number of the premisses.

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