Synonyms for excel
ɪkˈsɛlex·cel

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1. excel, stand out, surpassverb

   distinguish oneself

   "She excelled in math"

   Synonyms:
   surmount, outmatch, exceed, outgo, go past, outperform, travel by, leap out, stick out, pass, stand out, jump out, outstrip, transcend, go by, pass by, outdo, surpass, jump

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:2.5 / 2 votes

1. excelverb

   Synonyms:
   surpass, outdo, beat, be superior to, cast in the shade, throw into the shade

2. excelverb

   Synonyms:
   exceed, transcend, cap, go beyond

3. excelverb

   Synonyms:
   be superior, be eminent, bear the palm, bear the bell, take precedence

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1. excelverb

   Synonyms:
   outrival, outstrip, surpass, eclipse, outdo, outvie, transcend, exceed

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1. List of paraphrases for "excel":

   exel, excels, excell

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MDRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. EXCEL

   Synonyms:
   Expanded Clinical Evaluation of Lovastatin on lipid-lowering

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1. RAS CARDO REGGAE:

   I came legally to america to help the people, but here is what I witnessed as a black man. I see a system of entrapment for blacks which has been set in place for years and has been concretized and solidified in such ways with racism as the driving catalyst, and gate keeper. this makes it almost impossible for blacks to excel-so my reggae sings-no chains around my feet, but still I'm not free? can you imagine people building a system which enslaves them? define freedom in america!

2. John Adams:

   It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their courage; to accelerate and animate their industry and activity; to excite in them an habitual contempt of meanness, abhorrence of injustice and inhumanity, and an ambition to excel in every capacity, faculty, and virtue. If we suffer their minds to grovel and creep in infancy, they will grovel all their lives.

3. Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux:

   Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly.

4. Jaclyn Bealer:

   They have to do their AP (advanced placement) work, they have to be in honors classes, and it's not just enough to be in them, but they have to excel, they're just putting so much pressure on themselves to get the absolute best grade possible, and anything under a 90% is failure.

5. Hazlitt:

   Society is a more level surface than we imagine. Wise men or absolute fools are hard to be met with, as there are few giants or dwarfs. The heaviest charge we can bring against the general texture of society is that it is commonplace. Our fancied superiority to others is in some one thing which we think most of because we excel in it, or have paid most attention to it; whilst we overlook their superiority to us in something else which they set equal and exclusive store by.