Synonyms for excel
ɪkˈsɛlex·cel

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:4.5 / 2 votes

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

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

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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How to use excel in a sentence?

1. Plutarch:

   Let us carefully observe those good qualities wherein our enemies excel us and endeavor to excel them, by avoiding what is faulty, and imitating what is excellent in them.

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. 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!

4. Priscilla Moreland:

   Doesn’t the Air Force think that with the proper training I or my peers couldn’t excel as drone pilots? right now, the minimum height-limit starts at 5’4?. My daughter is 5’2?. What difference does it make what height you are when you are flying a drone? You are not actually sitting in an airplane.

5. Vince Lombardi:

   The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure.