surpass
IPA: sɝpˈæs
verb
- (transitive) To go beyond or exceed (something) in an adjudicative or literal sense.
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Examples of "surpass" in Sentences
- Her beauty is surpassing.
- Who did such surpassing project
- Scooter riders surpass charity target.
- The Canon cameras surpass other brands.
- The project is well done and surpassing.
- Everyone agrees that this work is surpassing.
- She surpassed the record the following night.
- Nothing surpasses the complexity of the human mind.
- Is there an objection that this work is not surpassing
- The Hezbollahi is a wild torrent surpassing the imagination.
- But the very word "surpass" implies the existence of a standard common to us and the thing surpassing us.
- In achieving that, we do not "surpass" Scripture and the Fathers in the sense of discovering more truth than they together did.
- Today's indication of notes and coins surpass the peak seen over the June month-end notes when they reached 25.208 billion rand on Jul 5.
- The younger Mr. Daley was first elected mayor in 1989 and will by the end of his term surpass his father by a year, making him Chicago's longest-serving mayor.
- Elaborating on Engels's assertion that the ultimate aim of a communist party is to "surpass the entire State, and thus democracy too (" surpass "- Überwinden in German, is also translated as" overcome "), Lenin wrote:
- This statue has been for a long time a favourite of my imagination, and I approached it, treading softly and slowly, and with a feeling of reverence; for I had an impression that the original Niobe would, like the original Venus, surpass all the casts and copies I had seen both in beauty and expression: but apparently expression is more easily caught than delicacy and grace, and the grandeur and pathos of the attitude and grouping easily copied -- for I think the best casts of the Niobe are accurate counterparts of the original; and at the first glance I was capriciously disappointed, because the statue did not _surpass_ my expectations.
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