| 单词 | surpass |
| 释义 | surpass (once / 346 pages) v To surpass means to outdo someone or something, to go beyond what was expected. If you do better than you think you will, you will surpass your own expectations. Some words seem to exist just to give an extra oomph to your speech, and surpass is one of these. While you could just say passed or even outdid" saying surpass seems to indicate that a person (or some other thing that performs, like a company) has really gone beyond anything you anticipated. People tend to use this word a lot before the words expectations and predictions among others, because of course surpassing is all about "surpassing something." WORD FAMILYsurpass: surpassed, surpasses, surpassing, unsurpassable+/surpassed: unsurpassed/surpassing: surpassinger, surpassingest, surpassingly/unsurpassable: unsurpassably/unsurpassed: unsurpassedly USAGE EXAMPLESThe newspaper reports that is the second year in a row, and only the second time since the 1990s, that the city surpassed 300 homicides. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) They were the popular choice before the season to be a surprise team, then surpassed those expectation. Washington Times(Jan 01, 2017) The business analyst, originally from Sweden, battled through illness, bad weather and muscular pain to surpass Ms Fleming's record. BBC(Dec 31, 2016) 1v be or do something to a greater degree her performance surpasses that of any other student I know Syn|Hypo|Hyper exceed, outdo, outgo, outmatch, outperform, outstrip, surmount beat, circumvent, outfox, outsmart, outwit, overreach beat through cleverness and wit outgrowgrow faster than outcry, outshoutshout louder than outroarroar louder than outsailsail faster or better than outdrawdraw a gun faster, or best someone in a gunfight outsellsell more than others outsellbe sold more often than other, similar products outpacesurpass in speed better, breaksurpass in excellence outshineattract more attention and praise than others outrangehave a greater range than (another gun) outweighbe heavier than outbravebe braver than out-herodsurpass someone in cruelty or evil outfoxoutdo someone in trickery shamesurpass or beat by a wide margin outmarchmarch longer distances and for a longer time than outwearlast longer than others upstagesteal the show, draw attention to oneself away from someone else beat, beat out, crush, shell, trounce, vanquish come out better in a competition, race, or conflict 2v be greater in scope or size than some standard Syn|Hypo exceed, transcend overgrow grow too large 3v distinguish oneself Syn|Hypo excel, stand out exceed, go past, overstep, pass, top, transcend be superior or better than some standard outrank, ranktake precedence or surpass others in rank excel at, shine atbe good at 4v move past One line of soldiers surpassed the other Syn|Hypo|Hyper go by, go past, pass, pass by, travel by skirt pass around or about; move along the border run bypass by while running fly bypass by while flying fly by, whisk by, zip bymove by very quickly go, locomote, move, travel change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically |
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