excel

[ex·cel]

If you excel at math, you are doing it better than anyone else. You might even be moving so much faster than the rest of your class, you're put into a special, accelerated math program.

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To go beyond or surpass in good qualities or laudable deeds; to outdo or outgo, in a good sense.

Verb
distinguish oneself; "She excelled in math"


v. t.
To go beyond or surpass in good qualities or laudable deeds; to outdo or outgo, in a good sense.

v. t.
To exceed or go beyond; to surpass.

v. i.
To surpass others in good qualities, laudable actions, or acquirements; to be distinguished by superiority; as, to excel in mathematics, or classics.


Excel

Ex*cel" , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Excelled; p. pr. & vb. n. Excelling.] [L. excellere, excelsum; ex out + a root found in culmen height, top; cf. F. exceller. See Culminate, Column.] 1. To go beyond or surpass in good qualities or laudable deeds; to outdo or outgo, in a good sense.
Excelling others, these were great; Thou, greater still, must these excel.
I saw that wisdom excelleth folly, as far as light excelleth darkness.
2. To exceed or go beyond; to surpass.
She opened; but to shut Excelled her power; the gates wide open stood.

Excel

Ex*cel", v. i. To surpass others in good qualities, laudable actions, or acquirements; to be distinguished by superiority; as, to excel in mathematics, or classics.
Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel.
Then peers grew proud in horsemanship t' excel.

To go beyond or surpass in good qualities or laudable deeds; to outdo or outgo, in a good sense.

To surpass others in good qualities, laudable actions, or acquirements; to be distinguished by superiority; as, to excel in mathematics, or classics.

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Usage Examples

Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.

We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.

Unfortunately, the elimination of incentives such as parole, good time credits and funding for college courses, means that fewer inmates participate in and excel in literacy, education, treatment and other development programs.

Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.

One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

God's desire is that we excel.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

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Other Usage Examples

I think what coaching is all about, is taking players and analyzing there ability, put them in a position where they can excel within the framework of the team winning. And I hope that I've done that in my 33 years as a head coach.

Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.

I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions.

I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.

I would rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent than in the extent of my powers and dominion.

I have witnessed how education opens doors, and I know that when sound instruction takes place, students experience the joys of new-found knowledge and the ability to excel.

And where I excel is ridiculous, sickening, work ethic. You know, while the other guy's sleeping? I'm working.

People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.

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