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excel🔊

To surpass someone or something; to be better or do better than someone or something.

📑 Synonyms: better outclass outperform
💬 Quotations
La Rochefoucauld, the French philosopher, said: "If you want enemies, excel your friends; but if you want friends, let your friends excel you." Why is that true? Because when our friends excel us, that gives them a feeling of importance; but when we excel them, that gives them a feeling of inferiority and arouses envy and jealousy.

To be much better than others.

📑 Synonyms: rock rule Thesaurus:excel

(archaic, rare) To exceed, to go beyond.

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