Usually means: Exceeds, goes beyond, outdoes expectations.
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  1. surpasses: Merriam-Webster
  2. surpasses: Collins English Dictionary
  3. surpasses: Vocabulary.com
  4. Surpasses, surpasses: Wordnik
  5. surpasses: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. surpasses: Wiktionary
  7. surpasses: Dictionary.com
  8. surpasses: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. surpasses: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. surpasses: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (surpass)

▸ verb:  (transitive) To go beyond or exceed (something) in an adjudicative or literal sense.
▸ Also see surpass


Opposite:
falls short of, lags behind, trails

Types:
exceeds, surpass, more...

Phrases:
a drunken surpasses with another round, more...

Adjectives:
much, frugal, other, good, day, original, last, less, old



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Opposite:
falls short of, lags behind, trails

Types:
exceeds, surpass, more...

Phrases:
a drunken surpasses with another round, more...

Adjectives:
much, frugal, other, good, day, original, last, less, old




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