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surpass

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Etymology

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FromMiddle Frenchsurpasser(“to pass beyond”). Bysurface analysis,sur- +‎pass. Displaced nativeOld Englishoferstīgan(literally“to climb over”).

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Verb

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surpass (third-person singular simple presentsurpasses,present participlesurpassing,simple past and past participlesurpassed)

  1. (transitive) To go beyond orexceed (something) in anadjudicative orliteral sense.
    The former problem studentsurpassed his instructor's expectations and scored top marks on his examination.
    The heavy rains threatened tosurpass the capabilities of the levee, endangering the town on the other side.
    • 1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e.,Emma Orczy], “The Tremarn Case”, inThe Case of Miss Elliott, London:T[homas] Fisher Unwin, published1905,→OCLC; republished as popular edition, London: Greening & Co., 1909,OCLC11192831, quoted inThe Case of Miss Elliott (ebook no. 2000141h.html), Australia:Project Gutenberg of Australia, February 2020:
      “Two or three months more went by; the public were eagerly awaiting the arrival of this semi-exotic claimant to an English peerage, and sensations,surpassing those of the Tichbourne case, were looked forward to with palpitating interest. […]”
    • 2021 May 2, Emma Sanders, “Tottenham Hotspur 4-0 Sheffield United”, inBBC Sport‎[1]:
      He celebrated at full-time with a beaming smile as he collected the match ball and he notched up another milestone by becoming the sixth Welshman tosurpass 50 Premier League goals.

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Translations

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to exceed

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