Verb

(en verb)

To be larger, greater than (something).

The company's 2005 revenue exceeds that of 2004.

To be better than (something).

The quality of her essay has exceeded my expectations.

To go beyond (some limit); to surpass, outstrip or transcend.

* Shakespeare

Name the time, but let it not / Exceed three days.

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To predominate.

(obsolete) To overdo.

Verb

(enlarg)

To make larger.

To increase the capacity of; to expand; to give free scope or greater scope to; also, to dilate, as with joy, affection, etc.

Knowledge enlarges the mind.

* Bible, 2 Corinthians vi. 11

O ye Corinthians, our heart is enlarged .

To speak at length upon'' or ''on (some subject)

* 1664 , (Samuel Butler), Hudibras 2.2.68:

I shall enlarge upon the Point.

(archaic) To release; to set at large.

* 1580 , (Philip Sidney), Arcadia 329:

Like a Lionesse lately enlarged .

* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , IV.8:

Finding no meanes how I might us enlarge , / But if that Dwarfe I could with me convay, / I lightly snatcht him up and with me bore away.

* Barrow

It will enlarge us from all restraints.

* 1599 , (William Shakespeare), Henry V , Act II Scene II:

Uncle of Exeter, enlarge the man committed yesterday, that rail'd against our person. We consider it was excess of wine that set him on.

(nautical) To get more astern or parallel with the vessel's course; to draw aft; said of the wind.

(legal) To extend the time allowed for compliance with (an order or rule).

(Abbott)