What does "excel" mean?

Excel: 2. To exceed or go beyond; to surpass. She opened; but to shut Excelled her power; the gates wide open stood. Milton.

Additional senses

  1. 2.To surpass others in good qualities, laudable actions, or acquirements; to be distinguished by superiority; as, to excel in mathematics, or classics. Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel. Gen. xlix.
  2. 3.Then peers grew proud in horsemanship t' excel. Pope.

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