exceeds
Sayik-SEEDZ/ɪkˈsidz/
- 1Third-person singular simple present of exceed.
Demand for the new model exceeds the factory's monthly output.
If the temperature exceeds forty degrees, the system shuts down automatically.
Note
The -s form carries every meaning of exceed into a he, she or it sentence, and nearly all of them take a direct object: a cost exceeds the budget, a result exceeds expectations, a speech exceeds its time. No preposition comes between, so it is never exceeds over or exceeds beyond. An intransitive use meaning "predominates" is still current; an older one, "goes too far," is now obsolete.
exceeds is a form of exceed
exceed, verb: To go beyond a particular limit, or to be greater or longer than something. Full entry
- Spelling
- exceed → exceeds: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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