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(transitive) To surpass someone or something; to be better or do better than someone or something. / (intransitive) To be much better than others. / (transitive, archaic, rare) To exceed, to go beyond

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excel

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Source Word

excel

IPA(Pronunciation)

/ɪkˈsɛl/

Verb

transitive intransitive archaic rare

Japanese Meaning

他者や他の物事を上回る、卓越する / 他者よりも優れている、勝っている / 非常に良い成果を示す、突出する / （古風な用法で）超える、行き過ぎる

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The athlete hoped to excel his rivals at the championship.

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その選手は選手権でライバルたちを上回ることを望んだ。

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

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.

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(intransitive) To be much better than others.

If, then, there is something in what the poets say, and jealousy is natural to the divine power, it would probably occur in this case above all, and all who excelled in this knowledge would be unfortunate.

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