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EXCEEDING
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Far beyond what is usual in magnitude or degree
Example:
the young Mozart's prodigious talents
Synonyms:
exceeding; exceptional; olympian; prodigious; surpassing
Classified under:
Similar:
extraordinary (beyond what is ordinary or usual; highly unusual or exceptional or remarkable)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb exceed
Context examples:
A laboratory test result indicating the presence of high levels of beta-2 microglobulin in blood or urine, exceeding 5.5 g/mL.
(Beta-2 Microglobulin Greater than 5.5 g/mL, NCI Thesaurus)
I shall have no fortune, and I fancy she is an exceeding proud woman.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
An electronic device designed to prevent the amplitude of a wave from exceeding a set limit.
(Limiter Device Component, NCI Thesaurus)
It has revealed that there are macrofibril structures with a diameter exceeding 10 nanometres in both softwood and hardwood species, and confirmed they are common across all trees studied.
(Revealing the nanostructure of wood could help raise height limits for wooden skyscrapers, University of Cambridge)
Last year, the U.S. experienced 15 weather and climate disasters, each with losses exceeding $1 billion for a total of $46 billion.
(2016 was 2nd warmest year on record for U.S., NOAA)
Seen by the dim light of the dips, their number to me appeared countless, though not in reality exceeding eighty; they were uniformly dressed in brown stuff frocks of quaint fashion, and long holland pinafores.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
While Lady Elliot lived, there had been method, moderation, and economy, which had just kept him within his income; but with her had died all such right-mindedness, and from that period he had been constantly exceeding it.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
After being known to oppose the scheme from the beginning, there is absurdity in the face of my joining them now, when they are exceeding their first plan in every respect; but I can think of no other alternative.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
First he had attacked the literature of mysticism, and had done it exceeding well; and, next, he had successfully supplied the very literature he had exposited, thus proving himself to be that rare genius, a critic and a creator in one.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
I should have thought that only a sub-human intelligence could have failed to grasp the point, but if it really needs amplification I shall consent to see you at the hour named, though visits and visitors of every sort are exceeding distasteful to me.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
