verb (-ll-)
1 [V] (in / at sth / at doing sth) to be very good at doing sth:
She has always excelled in foreign languages. * The team excels at turning defence into attack. * As a child he excelled at music and art.
2 [VN] yourself (BrE) to do extremely well and even better than you usually do:
Rick's cooking was always good but this time he really excelled himself.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for excel is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does excel appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — excel appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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