surpass Definition
sur·pass (sər pas′, -päs′)
surpass Synonyms
surpass
v.
surpass Usage Examples
Object
- greatness: Nothing compares to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus our Lord.
- expectation: The figure surpassed market expectations for a 0.4 percent increase.
- riches: Heaven is where God will show us kindness out of the surpassing riches of His grace forever.
- comprehension: And the peace of God, which surpasses all comprehension, shall guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
- likes: By 1973 Slade had surpassed the likes of T-Rex, David Bowie.
- anything: The ease with which is can now be removed from the office surpasses anything in history.
Subject
- none: Quite a number of crack regiments were recruited there, regiments whose battle record is surpassed by none, and equaled by few.
- quality: But even their efforts were surpassed by the quality of programs that made it through to final nominations.
Adjective complement
most: But it is a proven fact that people with this disorder can surpass most of the problems with work on their part.
Modifying Another Word
- far: A day to God's glory far surpasses a lifetime to selfish pleasures.
- even: EVEN surpasses Final fantasy VII, i dare say.
- easily: During our beta period, we easily surpassed all our customer acquisition goals.
- greatly: Our guests commented that while they expected the occasion to be very good it had greatly surpassed their expectations.
- consistently: I just wanted to say thanks, my expectations are consistently surpassed by your friendly staff and fast delivery.
- indeed: We are on target to achieve, and indeed surpass, the targets in our five-year commercialisation strategy.
Used with why or when
- what: In the 2006 the screen aims to surpass what they achieved during the previous year.
- when: Objective 5 was met when TUE hosted Async'97 and was surpassed when UPC hosted Async'99 this year.
Preposition: in
annals: Erasmus was now in the zenith of his fame, a fame which has never been surpassed in the annals of men of letters.
Preposition: by
Browse dictionary entries near surpass
- ‹ surname
- ‹ surmullet
- ‹ surmountable
- ‹ surmount
- ‹ surmise
- ‹ surly
- ‹ Suriname
- ‹ surimi
- ‹ suricate
- ‹ surgicenter
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- surplusage ›
- surprint ›
- surprisal ›
- surprise ›
- surprised ›
- surprising ›

