excavate
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～ form by hollowing; "Carnegie had a lake excavated for Princeton University's rowing team"; "excavate a cavity"
excavate
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～ recover through digging; "Schliemann excavated Troy"; "excavate gold"
excavate
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～ remove the inner part or the core of; "the mining company wants to excavate the hillside"
exceed
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～ be superior or better than some standard; "She exceeded our expectations"; "She topped her performance of last year"
exceed
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～ be or do something to a greater degree; "her performance surpasses that of any other student I know"; "She outdoes all other athletes"; "This exceeds all my expectations"; "This car outperforms all others in its class"
exceed
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～ be greater in scope or size than some standard; "Their loyalty exceeds their national bonds"
excel at
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～ be good at; "She shines at math"
excel
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～ distinguish oneself; "She excelled in math"
except
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～ prevent from being included or considered or accepted; "The bad results were excluded from the report"; "Leave off the top piece"
except
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～ take exception to; "he demurred at my suggestion to work on Saturday"
excerpt
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～ take out of a literary work in order to cite or copy
exchange
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～ hand over one and receive another, approximately equivalent; "exchange prisoners"; "exchange employees between branches of the company"
exchange
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～ give to, and receive from, one another; "Would you change places with me?"; "We have been exchanging letters for a year"
exchange
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～ change over, change around, as to a new order or sequence
exchange
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～ put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items; "the con artist replaced the original with a fake Rembrandt"; "substitute regular milk for fat-free milk"; "synonyms can be interchanged without a changing the context's meaning"
exchange
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～ exchange or replace with another, usually of the same kind or category; "Could you convert my dollars into pounds?"; "He changed his name"; "convert centimeters into inches"; "convert holdings into shares"
exchange
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～ exchange a penalty for a less severe one
excise
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～ remove by cutting; "The surgeon excised the tumor"
excise
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～ remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line; "Please strike this remark from the record"; "scratch that remark"