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surpasses

surpasses is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 surpasses

What is surpasses the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Surpasses is the third-person singular simple present indicative of surpass.

Words near surpasses in the dictionary

  1. surpass
  2. surpassable
  3. surpassed
  4. surpasser
  5. surpassers
  6. surpasses
  7. surpassest
  8. surpasseth
  9. surpassing
  10. surpassingly
  11. surpassingness

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