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Etymology

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FromMiddle Englishexceden, fromOld Frenchexceder, fromLatinexcēdō(“to go beyond”), fromex-(“out, forth”) withcēdō(“to go”); seecede and compareaccede etc. Partly displaced nativeOld Englishofersteppan, whenceModern Englishoverstep.

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Verb

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exceed (third-person singular simple presentexceeds,present participleexceeding,simple past and past participleexceeded)

  1. (transitive) To belarger,greater than (something).
    The company's 2005 revenueexceeds that of 2004.
  2. (transitive) To bebetter than (something).
    The quality of her essay hasexceeded my expectations.
  3. (transitive) To gobeyond (somelimit); tosurpass; to belonger than.
    Your password cannotexceed eight characters.
    • c.1603–1604 (date written),William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, andEd[ward] Blount, published1623,→OCLC,[Act III, scene iii]:
      Name the time, but let it not /Exceed three days.
    • 2012 January, Stephen Ledoux, “Behaviorism at 100”, inAmerican Scientist‎[1], volume100, number 1, page60:
      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 theyexceed the limits of their own disciplinary training.
  4. (intransitive) Topredominate.
  5. (intransitive, obsolete) To go too far; to beexcessive.
    • 1646,Sir Thomas Browne,Pseudodoxia Epidemica,I.6:
      And to speak impartially, old Men, from whom we should expect the greatest example of Wisdom, do mostexceed in this point of folly […].

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According to the Oxford Dictionary website:"There is no established opposite to the word exceed, and it is quite often suggested that one is needed. We are gathering evidence of the word deceed 'be less than', but it has not yet reached our dictionaries."

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Translations

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to be larger, greater than something else or than expected or desirable
to be better than something else or than expected or desirable
to go beyond the limits of something
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