transcend
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /tɹæn(t)ˈsɛnd/
transcend (transcends, present participle transcending; past and past participle transcended)
- (transitive) to pass beyond the limits of something.
- 1623, Francis Bacon, A Discourse of a War with Spain
- such personal popes, emperors, or elective kings, as shall transcend their limits
- 1623, Francis Bacon, A Discourse of a War with Spain
- (transitive) to surpass, as in intensity or power; to excel.
- How much her worth transcended all her kind.
- (obsolete) To climb; to mount.
- lights in the heavens transcending the region of the clouds
- (to pass beyond the limits of something) exceed, overgo, surpass; see also Thesaurus:transcend
- (to surpass something) better, dwarf, eclipse; see also Thesaurus:exceed
- (to climb) ascend
- French: transcender
- German: ubersteigen
- Portuguese: transcender
- Russian: переступа́ть предел
- Spanish: trascender
- Russian: превосходи́ть
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