outstrip
Drivers who exceed the speed limit can expect to be fined heavily.超速驾车的司机会被罚以重金。
Sales this year exceeded the total for the two previous years.今年的销售量超过了前两年销售量的总和。
The book's success has exceeded all our expectations.
The demand for cheap housing far exceeds supply.
You mustn't exceed the recommended dose.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Surpassing in quality or number
catch (someone) up
compare
crown
crush
do something for an encoreidiom
eclipse
encore
outcompete
outdo
outflank
outgo
outman
push the envelopeidiom
put/leave someone in the shadeidiom
shade
shame
steal
steal a march on someoneidiom
steal someone's thunderidiom
surpass

Examples of exceeded

exceeded

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

Not only is professional knowledge exceeded in this case, but also practical and social understanding.
The tract was coded as contiguous if any of the surrounding tracts exceeded a threshold of 40% poverty.
A second deficit became evident when the number of items to be encoded exceeded storage capacity.
After 1924, wage earner cases exceeded business cases in each year, and the gap widened as the rate of wage earner bankruptcy increased.
It seems that disc cell division continues and normal cell numbers are exceeded only when spatial patterning is disrupted.
We applied liability threshold models, which assume that risk is distributed normally and that the disorder occurs only when a certain threshold is exceeded.
The model produced similar percentages of overestimation (19.7 % of predictions exceeded twice the observed values) and under-estimation (18.6 % were less than half the observed values).
However, the numbers of students with appropriate educational standards recruited nation-wide into therapy radiography degree courses in any one year has never exceeded 4. 150.
The mean number of species per eel ranged from 0.7 to 1.7 per eel, and the maximum never exceeded three.
Although prevalence values fluctuated during the study period, they never exceeded 36%.
As things turned out, after 1650 their share never exceeded 15 per cent.
It will simply appear in the end-of-year accounting that expenditures far exceeded expectations.
The total sales volume of proton pump inhibitors for the group with dyspepsia exceeded 1.3 billion in 1998.
Predictions were considered not good enough if they exceeded twice the observed values (overestimation) or were less than half the observed values (under-estimation).
Unforeseeable events occurred, the contract was exceeded and re-negotiations were necessary.
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