0 to do or be better than:
1 to do or be better or more than something else:
Our team’s achievements surpass those of teams in earlier years.
What if past thought were not always surpassed thought?
His work in this field is unlikely to be surpassed for a very long time to come.
Team effort supported by massive corporate resources surpasses lone artists in technological advances in the creative arts.
For example, in poorer countries the number of wireless phone connections are surpassing the number of fixed lines.
This phenomenon far surpasses general notions of "poor" parenting.
Early estimates of maximum life expectancy, which yielded values in the 70s, have already been surpassed in low mortality populations.
Consequently, although jack mackerel catches continued to rise, surpassing 3 million tonnes in 1991, pilchard harvests collapsed back to mid-1970s levels.
Then, a competitive linking strategy is used, but not until all words or phrases are linked, but until a certain threshold is surpassed.