excelverb [ I ]
uk/ɪkˈsel/us/ɪkˈsel/-ll-C2 to be extremely good at something:
Rebecca always excelled in languages at school.
excel yourself
C2 to do something better than you usually do:
The British team have excelled themselves this year to reach the finals.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Succeeding, achieving and fulfilling
- accomplish
- achieve
- acquit
- actualize
- attain
- bear
- go places idiom
- go the whole hog idiom
- grade
- groove
- have the last laugh idiom
- have your/its moments idiom
- kill
- rise
- somewhere
- stand out
- streak ahead
- succeed
- sunset
- take hold idiom
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