Usually means: Go beyond the set limits.
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We found 33 dictionaries that define the word exceed:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. exceed: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. exceed: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. exceed: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. exceed: Collins English Dictionary
  5. exceed: Vocabulary.com
  6. Exceed, exceed: Wordnik
  7. exceed: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. exceed: Wiktionary
  9. exceed: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. exceed: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. exceed: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Exceed, exceed: Dictionary.com
  13. exceed: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. exceed: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. EXceed (series), EXceed, Exceed: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Exceed: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. exceed: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. exceed: Rhymezone
  19. exceed: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. exceed: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. exceed: Free Dictionary
  22. exceed: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. exceed: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. exceed: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. exceed: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Exceed: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Exceed: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  2. exceed: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To be larger, greater than (something).
verb:  (transitive) To be better than (something).
verb:  (transitive) To go beyond (some limit); to surpass; to be longer than.
verb:  (intransitive) To predominate.
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) To go too far; to be excessive.

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    gold,     silver,     platinum,     emerald,     sapphire,     ruby,     amethyst,     topaz,     jade,     turquoise



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