transcend
verb/tɹæn(t)ˈsɛnd/
Etymology
From Middle English transcenden, from Old French transcender, from Latin transcendō (“to climb over, step over, surpass, transcend”), from trans (“over”) + scandō (“to climb”); see scan; compare ascend, descend.
- derived from transcendō
- derived from transcender
- inherited from transcenden
Definitions
To pass beyond the limits of something.
- We cannot transcend what we refuse to face.
- such personal popes, emperors, or elective kings, as shall transcend their limits
- Shepard: What do you want from us? Slaves? Resources? My kind transcends your very understanding. We are each a nation. Independent, free of all weakness. You cannot grasp the nature of our existence.
To surpass, as in intensity or power
To surpass, as in intensity or power; to excel.
- How much her worth transcended all her kind.
To climb
To climb; to mount.
- lights in the heavens transcending the region of the clouds
- your Muse soars up to the upper, and transcending that too, takes her fight among the Celestial bodies
The neighborhood
- synonymovergo
- synonymsurpass
- synonymdwarf
- synonymeclipse
- synonymexceed
- synonymexcel
- synonymforpass
- synonymgo beyond
- synonymoutcompass
- synonymoutstep
- synonymoutstrip
- synonymoverpass
- antonymfall short of
- antonymstop short
- neighborclear
- neighborcross the line
- neighborgo too far
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA