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UK
/səpˈɑːsɪŋ/
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[ US /sɝˈpæsɪŋ/ ]
[ US /sɝˈpæsɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- exceeding or surpassing usual limits especially in excellence
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far beyond what is usual in magnitude or degree
the young Mozart's prodigious talents
a night of exceeding darkness
olympian efforts to save the city from bankruptcy
an exceptional memory
How To Use surpassing In A Sentence
- 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
- Television, in this sense, is the consummate egalitarian medium of communication, surpassing oral language itself.
- If successful, the IPO would be the world's biggest so far this year, according to Dealogic, surpassing the $127 million offering by Chinese health-care company Xizang Haisco Pharmaceutical Group Co Ltd. in Shenzhen. Sunshine Oilsands Cleared for Hong Kong IPO
- This term, he is within touching distance of surpassing that. Times, Sunday Times
- she was a surpassingly beautiful woman
- Not only are they among the largest and most stately trees on earth, but they thrive in settings of surpassing scenic beauty.
- I was in great surprise at seeing the mouth of Unknown, so much surpassing in horror the jaws of upper Hell, I could hear a prodigious noise of arms, and loud discharges from one side, answered by what seemed to be hoarse thunders from the other; the rocks of Death, meanwhile, rebellowing the tumult. The Sleeping Bard or, Visions of the World, Death, and Hell
- For the last 5 or 6 days I've been surpassing even myself in gloominess.
- Thus, one of Hartshorne's preferred definitions of God: “the self-surpassing surpasser of all” (Hartshorne 1948, 20). Process Theism
- I only meant her to make a tolerable figure, without surpassing any one. Daniel Deronda