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{
"term": "exceed",
"partOfSpeech": "verb",
"academic": true,
"ox5000": true,
"cefr": "b2",
"verbForms": {
"presentSimple": {
"iYouWeThey": "exceed",
"heSheIt": "exceeds"
},
"pastSimple": "exceeded",
"pastParticiple": "exceeded",
"ingForm": "exceeding"
},
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "to be greater than a particular number or amount",
"sensetop": "exceed something",
"cefr": "b2",
"examples": [
{
"text": "The price will not exceed £100."
},
{
"text": "Summer temperatures rarely exceed 27°C."
},
{
"text": "Their numbers barely exceed 100 in the wild."
},
{
"text": "The House voted by 327 votes to 93, comfortably exceeding the required two-thirds majority."
}
],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["considerably", "far", "greatly"],
"verb + exceed": ["be expected to", "be likely to", "be unlikely to"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "to do more than the law or an order, etc. allows you to do",
"sensetop": "exceed something",
"cefr": "b2",
"examples": [
{
"text": "She was exceeding the speed limit *(= driving faster than is allowed)*."
},
{
"text": "The officers had exceeded their authority."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "to be better than expected",
"sensetop": "exceed expectations",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "His achievements have exceeded expectations."
},
{
"text": "The amount raised has far exceeded our wildest expectations."
}
]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪkˈsiːd/",
"audio": "ex/exceed/exceed__gb_3.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪkˈsiːdz/",
"audio": "ex/exceed/exceeds__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪkˈsiːdɪd/",
"audio": "ex/exceed/exceeded__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪkˈsiːdɪŋ/",
"audio": "ex/exceed/exceeding__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪkˈsiːd/",
"audio": "ex/exceed/exceed__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪkˈsiːdz/",
"audio": "ex/exceed/exceeds__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪkˈsiːdɪd/",
"audio": "ex/exceed/exceeded__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪkˈsiːdɪŋ/",
"audio": "ex/exceed/exceeding__us_2.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "late Middle English (in the sense ‘go over (a boundary or specified point)’): from Old French exceder, from Latin excedere, from ex- ‘out’ + cedere ‘go’."
}