Definition of "exceed"

exceed

/ɪkˈsiːd/

verb
third-person singular simple present exceeds, present participle exceeding, simple past and past participle exceeded
1. (transitive) To be larger, greater than (something).
2. (transitive) To be better than (something).
3. (transitive) To go beyond (some limit); to surpass; to be longer than.
  Quotations
  Name the time, but let it not / Exceed three days.
  c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act III, scene iii]
  Becoming more aware of the progress that scientists have made on behavioral fronts can reduce the risk that other natural scientists will resort to mystical agential accounts when they exceed the limits of their own disciplinary training.
  2012 January, Stephen Ledoux, “Behaviorism at 100”, in American Scientist‎, volume 100, number 1, page 60
4. (intransitive) To predominate.
5. (intransitive, obsolete) To go too far; to be excessive.
  Quotations
  And to speak impartially, old Men, from whom we should expect the greatest example of Wisdom, do most exceed in this point of folly […].
  1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, I.6