excel

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/ɪkˈsɛl/

verb

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verb
To be extremely good at something.
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verb
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To be much better than others.

Examples

I have attached a Microsoft Excel file.
She began to excel in the Berber language.

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Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

Senses: 4
Parts of speech: 1
Citations: 5
Synonyms: 5

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Extra meanings

To exceed, to go beyond.
To surpass someone or something; to be better or do better than someone or something.

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Australians excel at sports and entertainment.
I excelled everyone else with my exam results.
1924: Aristotle, Metaphysics. Translated by W. D. Ross. Nashotah, Wisconsin, USA: The Classical Library, 2001. Book 1, Part 2.. If, then, there is something in what the poets say, and jealousy is natural to the divine power, it would probably occur in this ca...

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Compositions which follow the style of Nissi Belzer's creations in structure but which excel them in length.
1929, Abraham Zevi Idelsohn, Jewish Music: Its Historical Development, page 434
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.
1936, Dale Carnegie, “Part 3, Chapter 6: THE SAFETY VALVE IN HANDLING COMPLAINTS”, in How to Win Friends and Influence People
But it is as a destroyer of grasshoppers that the dickcissel excels.
1901, Sylvester D. Judd, The Relation of Sparrows to Agriculture, page 91
Lescott gave his finest England performance alongside his former Everton team-mate Phil Jagielka, who also excelled despite playing with a fractured toe, while Parker was given a deserved standing ovation when he was substituted late on.
2011 November 12, “International friendly: England 1-0 Spain”, in BBC Sport
From Rosie the Riveter to Coco Channel^([sic – meaning Coco Chanel]) (in pants!), from Amelia Earhart to the quaintrelle (the female dandy), change in women's dress has symbolized everything from the right and need to work outside the home to wearing pants as a fashion statement to excelling at a profession (even as an aviatrix) to once again claiming the right to cultivate life's pleasures.
2011, Glenda L. Swetman, Alison Trappey, “Principles of Gender-specific Medicine”, in Lawrence Charles Parish, Sarah Brenner, Marcia Ramos-e-Silva, Jennifer L. Parish, editors, Manual of Gender Dermatology, Sudbury, Mass.; Mississauga, Ont.: Jones & Bartlett Learning, →ISBN, part I (Primer of Gender Dermatology), page 9

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Origin

verb

From Middle English excellen, from Old French exceller, from Latin excellere, excelsum; ex (“out”) + *cellō, an unattested verb root found in culmen (“height, top”); Compare French exceller. See also culminate, column.

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She hopes to blank in her final mathematics exam.