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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By my troth, I am exceeding ill: hey-ho!
From Much Ado about Nothing by William Shakespeare
Indeed, I am exceeding grieved to have done it, not so much for the thing itself as for that which hath ensued of it and by reason whereof Ruggieri is like to lose his life.
From The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by John Payne
"SIR, "I am exceeding sorry to hear you have not been well.
From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 by Isaac Disraeli
O my lord, by Allah, I am exceeding fearful.
From Alaeddin and the Enchanted Lamp by John Payne
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
