{
    "term": "exceed",
    "partOfSpeech": "verb",
    "academic": true,
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "b2",
    "verbForms": {
        "presentSimple": {
            "iYouWeThey": "exceed",
            "heSheIt": "exceeds"
        },
        "pastSimple": "exceeded",
        "pastParticiple": "exceeded",
        "ingForm": "exceeding"
    },
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "to be greater than a particular number or amount",
            "sensetop": "exceed something",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The price will not exceed £100."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Summer temperatures rarely exceed 27°C."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Their numbers barely exceed 100 in the wild."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The House voted by 327 votes to 93, comfortably exceeding the required two-thirds majority."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["considerably", "far", "greatly"],
                "verb + exceed": ["be expected to", "be likely to", "be unlikely to"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "to do more than the law or an order, etc. allows you to do",
            "sensetop": "exceed something",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "She was exceeding the speed limit *(= driving faster than is allowed)*."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The officers had exceeded their authority."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "to be better than expected",
            "sensetop": "exceed expectations",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "His achievements have exceeded expectations."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The amount raised has far exceeded our wildest expectations."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɪkˈsiːd/",
                "audio": "ex/exceed/exceed__gb_3.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɪkˈsiːdz/",
                "audio": "ex/exceed/exceeds__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɪkˈsiːdɪd/",
                "audio": "ex/exceed/exceeded__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɪkˈsiːdɪŋ/",
                "audio": "ex/exceed/exceeding__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɪkˈsiːd/",
                "audio": "ex/exceed/exceed__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɪkˈsiːdz/",
                "audio": "ex/exceed/exceeds__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɪkˈsiːdɪd/",
                "audio": "ex/exceed/exceeded__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɪkˈsiːdɪŋ/",
                "audio": "ex/exceed/exceeding__us_2.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late Middle English (in the sense ‘go over (a boundary or specified point)’): from Old French exceder, from Latin excedere, from ex- ‘out’ + cedere ‘go’."
}