Exceeding can be categorized as a verb and an adjective.
Adjective |
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| exceeding - far beyond what is usual in magnitude or degree; "a night of exceeding darkness"; "an exceptional memory"; "olympian efforts to save the city from bankruptcy"; "the young Mozart's prodigious talents" | ||
Adverb |
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| exceeding - Exceedingly. | ||
Verb |
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| exceed - be superior or better than some standard; "She exceeded our expectations"; "She topped her performance of last year" | ||
| exceed - be greater in scope or size than some standard; "Their loyalty exceeds their national bonds" | ||
| exceed - be or do something to a greater degree; "her performance surpasses that of any other student I know"; "She outdoes all other athletes"; "This exceeds all my expectations"; "This car outperforms all others in its class" |
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| 1. | adj. | A night of exceeding darkness. | |
| 2. | verb | The car is exceeding the speed limit. | |
| 3. | verb | All these are ways of exceeding the bounds imposed on us by human nature. | |
| 4. | verb | You were exceeding the speed limit, weren't you? | |
| 5. | verb | Radioactive cesium in amounts exceeding limits has been measured on young lancefish caught in Fukushima prefecture. | |
| 6. | verb | You're exceeding your authority. | |
| 7. | verb | She was dressed with exceeding smartness and wore several bangle bracelets that glittered and rattled and tinkled with every movement of her hands. | |
| 8. | verb | No man takes with him to Hades all his exceeding wealth. | |
| 9. | verb | The International Labour Organization defines a workweek exceeding 48 hours as excessive. | |
| 10. | verb | The Silicon Valley company's stock has skyrocketed more than 50,000 percent since it went public in 1980, greatly exceeding the S&P 500's impressive 2,000 percent gain during the same period. | |
| 11. | verb | Now when these things were done, the word of the Lord came to Abram by a vision, saying: Fear not, Abram, I am thy protector, and thy reward exceeding great. | |
| 12. | verb | And when Hemor the father of Sichem was come out to speak to Jacob, behold his sons came from the field: and hearing what had passed, they were exceeding angry, because he had done a foul thing in Israel, and committed an unlawful act, in ravishing Jacob's daughter. | |
| 13. | verb | For they were exceeding rich, and could not dwell together: neither was the land in which they sojourned able to bear them, for the multitude of their flocks. | |
| 14. | verb | An exceeding comely maid, and a most beautiful virgin, and not known to man: and she went down to the spring, and filled her pitcher, and was coming back. | |
| 15. | verb | And Jacob boiled pottage: to whom Esau, coming faint out of the field, said: Give me of this red pottage, for I am exceeding faint. For which reason his name was called Edom. | |
| 16. | verb | And the man was enriched, and he went on prospering and increasing, till he became exceeding great. |
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| A night of exceeding darkness. |
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| verb | |
| The car is exceeding the speed limit. | |
| All these are ways of exceeding the bounds imposed on us by human nature. | |
| You were exceeding the speed limit, weren't you? | |
| Radioactive cesium in amounts exceeding limits has been measured on young lancefish caught in Fukushima prefecture. | |
| You're exceeding your authority. | |
| She was dressed with exceeding smartness and wore several bangle bracelets that glittered and rattled and tinkled with every movement of her hands. | |
| No man takes with him to Hades all his exceeding wealth. | |
| The International Labour Organization defines a workweek exceeding 48 hours as excessive. | |
| The Silicon Valley company's stock has skyrocketed more than 50,000 percent since it went public in 1980, greatly exceeding the S&P 500's impressive 2,000 percent gain during the same period. | |
| Now when these things were done, the word of the Lord came to Abram by a vision, saying: Fear not, Abram, I am thy protector, and thy reward exceeding great. | |
| And when Hemor the father of Sichem was come out to speak to Jacob, behold his sons came from the field: and hearing what had passed, they were exceeding angry, because he had done a foul thing in Israel, and committed an unlawful act, in ravishing Jacob's daughter. | |
| For they were exceeding rich, and could not dwell together: neither was the land in which they sojourned able to bear them, for the multitude of their flocks. | |
| An exceeding comely maid, and a most beautiful virgin, and not known to man: and she went down to the spring, and filled her pitcher, and was coming back. | |
| And Jacob boiled pottage: to whom Esau, coming faint out of the field, said: Give me of this red pottage, for I am exceeding faint. For which reason his name was called Edom. | |
| And the man was enriched, and he went on prospering and increasing, till he became exceeding great. | |