exceed
Pronunciation
  • IPA: /ɪkˈsiːd/
Verb

exceed (exceeds, present participle exceeding; past and past participle exceeded)

  1. (transitive) To be larger, greater than (something).
    The company's 2005 revenue exceeds that of 2004.
  2. (transitive) To be better than (something).
    The quality of her essay has exceeded my expectations.
  3. (transitive) To go beyond (some limit); to surpass; to be longer than.
    • c. 1603–1604, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act III, scene iii]:
      Name the time, but let it not / Exceed three days.
    Your password cannot exceed eight characters.
  4. (intransitive) To predominate.
  5. (intransitive, obsolete) To go too far; to be excessive.
    • 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, I.6:
      And to speak impartially, old Men, from whom we should expect the greatest example of Wisdom, do most exceed in this point of folly […].
Synonyms Antonyms

According to the Oxford Dictionary website:
"There is no established opposite to the word exceed, and it is quite often suggested that one is needed. We are gathering evidence of the word deceed 'be less than', but it has not yet reached our dictionaries."

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