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exceed

verb
/ɪkˈsiːd/

Etymology

From Middle English exceden, from Old French exceder, from Latin excēdō (“to go beyond”), from ex- (“out, forth”) with cēdō (“to go”); see cede and compare accede etc. Partly displaced native Old English ofersteppan, whence Modern English overstep.

  1. derived from excēdō — “to go beyond”
  2. derived from exceder
  3. inherited from exceden

Definitions

  1. To be larger, greater than (something).

    • The company's 2005 revenue exceeds that of 2004.

  2. To be better than (something).

    • The quality of her essay has exceeded my expectations.

  3. To go beyond (some limit)

    To go beyond (some limit); to surpass; to be longer than.

    • Your password cannot exceed eight characters.
    • Name the time, but let it not / Exceed three days.
    • Becoming more aware of the progress that scientists have made on behavioral fronts can reduce the risk that other natural scientists will resort to mystical agential accounts when they exceed the limits of their own disciplinary training.
  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. To predominate.

    2. To go too far

      To go too far; to be excessive.

      • And to speak impartially, old Men, from whom we should expect the greatest example of Wisdom, do most exceed in this point of folly […].

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Derived

exceedable, exceedance, exceeder, exceeding, exceedingly, unexceeded

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at exceed. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at exceed. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at exceed

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA