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SURPASSING
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Far beyond what is usual in magnitude or degree
Example:
the young Mozart's prodigious talents
Synonyms:
exceeding; exceptional; olympian; prodigious; surpassing
Classified under:
Similar:
extraordinary (beyond what is ordinary or usual; highly unusual or exceptional or remarkable)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Exceeding or surpassing usual limits especially in excellence
Synonyms:
surpassing; transcendent
Classified under:
Similar:
superior (of high or superior quality or performance)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb surpass
Context examples:
This was the highest for June in the 1880–2015 record, surpassing the previous record set last year in 2014 by 0.22°F (0.12°C).
(June 2015 was warmest June on record for the globe, NOAA)
This was the highest for January–March in the 1880–2015 record, surpassing the previous record of 2002 by 0.09°F (0.05°C).
(March 2015 and first quarter of year warmest on record, NOAA)
There—for with your leave, my sister, I will put some trust in preceding navigators—there snow and frost are banished; and, sailing over a calm sea, we may be wafted to a land surpassing in wonders and in beauty every region hitherto discovered on the habitable globe.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
His regard for her, infinitely surpassing anything that Willoughby ever felt or feigned, as much more warm, as more sincere or constant—which ever we are to call it—has subsisted through all the knowledge of dear Marianne's unhappy prepossession for that worthless young man!—and without selfishness—without encouraging a hope!—could he have seen her happy with another—Such a noble mind!—such openness, such sincerity!—no one can be deceived in HIM.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
This was the highest for June in the 1880–2015 record, surpassing the previous record set in 2012 by 0.11°F (0.06°C).
(June 2015 was warmest June on record for the globe, NOAA)
