(formal) to do or be better than sb/sth:
[VN] He hopes one day to surpass the world record. * Its success has surpassed all expectations. * Her cooking was always good, but this time she had surpassed herself (= done better than her own high standards). * [V] scenery of surpassing beauty
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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 surpass is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is surpass a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, surpass is tagged as verb.
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