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What is the verb for excellent?

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excel
  1. (transitive) To surpass someone or something; to be better or do better than someone or something.
  2. (intransitive) To be much better than others.
  3. (rare) To exceed, to go beyond
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  5. Examples:
    1. “The visual effects in this stage production excel any that we have previously seen.”
      “Tim would quickly begin to excel in basketball, and a professional career in the sport would soon beckon.”
      “At the same time, her children excel all the children in town in learning, in demeanor, and in a certain reserved and distinguished bearing.”
excels
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of excel
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  3. Examples:
    1. “As an artifact of its time and of its bizarre fetishistic sport, the film excels.”
      “There is something old-fashioned in his manner which may explain why he excels as gruff authority figures and flinty men of the West.”
      “Woof, also, excels, touching a raw nerve within the psyche of a repressed romantic.”
excelleth
  1. (archaic) third-person singular simple present indicative form of excel
excellest
  1. (archaic) second-person singular simple present form of excel
excelled
  1. simple past tense and past participle of excel
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  3. Examples:
    1. “For fastening the hay-fork rope to the whiffletrees or tying a rope around a calf's neck this knot cannot be excelled.”
      “Ed Blackwell plays it straight for the most part, with only occasional flashes of the quicksilver rhythmic trickery he excelled at.”
      “The question master on the night was Charlie Hughes and he excelled as usual with his witty repertoire.”
excelling
  1. present participle of excel
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  3. Examples:
    1. “He was also remarkably a versatile actor, excelling equally well at noble princes and light-hearted rogues.”
      “As is to be expected at this level, no one boat is absolutely excelling and on-the-water rivalry is fierce.”
      “At school, Eisenhower proved to be a star athlete excelling in both baseball and American football.”
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