If Spenser doesn't keep adding and translating sentences, the other contributors will surely surpass him.
Source: tatoeba (1950)
Surpass
//sɚˈpæs//
Synonyms for "surpass" (93 found)
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Closest matches (19)
Strong matches (28)
Related words (46)
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Translations
70 translations across 31 languages.
Ancient Greek
4 entries- καίνυμαι verb (to exceed)
- ὑπερέχω verb (to exceed)
- ὑπερβάλλω verb (to exceed)
- ὑπερφέρω verb (to exceed)
Arabic
4 entries- اتجاوز verb (to exceed)
- تَجَاوَزَ verb (to exceed)
- علي على verb (to exceed)
- فَاقَ verb (to exceed)
Aromanian
2 entries- antrec verb (to exceed)
- astrec verb (to exceed)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- ötmək verb (to exceed)
Bulgarian
3 entries- надвишавам verb (to exceed)
- надминавам verb (to exceed)
- надхвърлям verb (to exceed)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 超過 /超过 verb (to exceed)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 勝過 /胜过 verb (to exceed)
- 超越 verb (to exceed)
- 超過 /超过 verb (to exceed)
Czech
1 entries- překonat verb (to exceed)
Danish
3 entries- overgå verb (to exceed)
- overstige verb (to exceed)
- overtræffe verb (to exceed)
Dutch
2 entries- overstijgen verb (to exceed)
- overtreffen verb (to exceed)
Esperanto
1 entries- superi verb (to exceed)
Finnish
1 entries- ylittää verb (to exceed)
French
3 entries- dépasser verb (to exceed)
- excéder verb (to exceed)
- surpasser verb (to exceed)
German
4 entries- überbieten verb (to exceed)
- überschreiten verb (to exceed)
- übersteigen verb (to exceed)
- übertreffen verb (to exceed)
Ido
1 entries- superirar verb (to exceed)
Italian
1 entries- sorpassare verb (to exceed)
Japanese
2 entries- 勝る verb (to exceed)
- 超える verb (to exceed)
Latin
2 entries- praecellō verb (to exceed)
- superō verb (to exceed)
Māori
3 entries- hau verb (to exceed)
- hipa verb (to exceed)
- pahika verb (to exceed)
Norwegian Bokmål
3 entries- overgå verb (to exceed)
- overstige verb (to exceed)
- overtreffe verb (to exceed)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- overgå verb (to exceed)
Old English
1 entries- oferstīgan verb (to exceed)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- آشمق verb (to exceed)
Polish
2 entries- przewyższać verb (to exceed)
- przewyższyć verb (to exceed)
Portuguese
4 entries- sobrepassar verb (to exceed)
- superar verb (to exceed)
- suplantar verb (to exceed)
- ultrapassar verb (to exceed)
Romanian
2 entries- depăși verb (to exceed)
- întrece verb (to exceed)
Russian
2 entries- превзойти́ verb (to exceed)
- превосходи́ть verb (to exceed)
Spanish
4 entries- aventajar verb (to exceed)
- pasar verb (to exceed)
- sobrepasar verb (to exceed)
- superar verb (to exceed)
Swedish
2 entries- överskrida verb (to exceed)
- överträffa verb (to exceed)
Tocharian B
1 entries- ṣärk verb (to exceed)
Ukrainian
4 entries- переве́ршити verb (to exceed)
- переве́ршувати verb (to exceed)
- переви́щити verb (to exceed)
- переви́щувати verb (to exceed)
Sample sentences
14 total sentences available.
Nobody can surpass him.
Source: tatoeba (276656)
Christopher Columbus's secret love letters to Queen Isabella - undiscovered for centuries - have been rumored to rival, if not surpass, the Kama Sutra.
Source: tatoeba (780188)
The reason the Northern and Southern Dynasties had failed in their rule was that they allowed literary splendor to surpass real substance.
Source: tatoeba (828055)
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