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surpassed

surpassed is the simple past and past participle of surpass.

Meaning of surpass

Verb

surpass (third-person singular simple present surpasses, present participle surpassing, simple past and past participle surpassed)

  1. (transitive) To go beyond or exceed (something) in an adjudicative or literal sense.
    • The former problem student surpassed his instructor's expectations and scored top marks on his examination.

Questions about surpassed

What is surpassed the simple past and past participle of?
Surpassed is the simple past and past participle of surpass.

Words near surpassed in the dictionary

  1. surp
  2. surpaish
  3. surpaishes
  4. surpass
  5. surpassable
  6. surpassed
  7. surpasser
  8. surpassers
  9. surpasses
  10. surpassest
  11. surpasseth

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Adapted from Wiktionary: surpassed (page history and authors); surpass (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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