exceed
verb (used with object)
to go beyond in quantity, degree, rate, etc..
am exceeding
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present progressiveof exceed (1st person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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"Give me now but one night's rest, for I am exceeding weary."
From A Dreamer's Tales by Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, Baron Dunsany
"That is so, although I am exceeding my duty in revealing this."
From The Rome Express by Arthur Griffiths
No; but I am exceeding ill with the fright on't.
From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 04 by Sir Walter Scott
Pray give my service to I. H. and desire him to make my compliments to his landlady and tel her, I hope she is now right with her son, which I am exceeding glad of.
From Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume I. by Mrs. Thomson
I am exceeding glad of your great promotion.
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 9 by Various
