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[ US /sɝˈpæs/ ]
[ UK /səpˈɑːs/ ]
VERB
  1. be or do something to a greater degree
    This car outperforms all others in its class
    She outdoes all other athletes
    her performance surpasses that of any other student I know
    This exceeds all my expectations
  2. be greater in scope or size than some standard
    Their loyalty exceeds their national bonds
  3. distinguish oneself
    She excelled in math
  4. move past
    He passed his professor in the hall
    A black limousine passed by when she looked out the window
    One line of soldiers surpassed the other

How To Use surpass In A Sentence

  • Does the plain, unsugared doughy type bagel look alike surpass the overly decorated with hundreds and thousands and pumped full of sweet chemicals with optional coating of chocolate (half dipped) Tescos Express doughnut win every time? Rabbit Stew. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
  • You have truly surpassed yourself in all manner of possible ways!
  • The second half of the match comfortably surpassed the first in entertainment value.
  • It's worth keeping in mind that household mortgage credit expanded at an 11.4% rate during the second quarter, a torrid pace likely being surpassed with the current refi boom.
  • However the damages and injuries from the accidents so far this year surpassed those of last year.
  • The inn we occupied had one of these porches: Madame Barbot, our landlady, and her maid, were both dressed in Breton costume, with lace-trimmed embroidered caps and aprons of fine muslin, clear-starched and ironed with a perfection which the most accomplished "blanchisseuse du fin" of Paris would find it difficult to surpass. Brittany & Its Byways
  • Modder River, when all day long most of our men were quite unable to discover on which side of the stream the Boer entrenchments were, and in what they called clever trickery, but we called treachery, they are absolutely unsurpassable. With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back
  • One effort was an adulatory poem, Le Siecle de Louis le Grand, in which he claimed that Louis XIV's world equalled, and surpassed, that of the ancient world.
  • Purposefully moraceous make money work from home, but the lintwhite unholiness was that the wildness sokoro was buried me surpassingly was a permanently in the pintado flyer skillet. Rational Review
  • Thus the new connotations and conceptualizations put forth by the Fathers revitalized the Church's memory of what the Apostles taught, and historical theology today would enable us to revitalize our memory of what the "unsurpassable" Fathers taught. Archive 2007-03-01
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