excel

To surpass someone or something; to be better or do better than someone or something.

I excelled everyone else with my exam results.

La Rochefoucauld, the French philosopher, said: "If you want enemies, excel your friends; but if you want friends, let your friends excel you." Why is that true? Because when our friends excel us, that gives them a feeling of importance; but when we excel them, that gives them a feeling of inferiority and arouses envy and jealousy.

To be much better than others.

But it is as a destroyer of grasshoppers that the dickcissel excels.

1924: Aristotle, Metaphysics. Translated by W. D. Ross. Nashotah, Wisconsin, USA: The Classical Library, 2001. Book 1, Part 2.. If, then, there is something in what the poets say, and jealousy is natural to the divine power, it would probably occur in this case above all, and all who excelled in this knowledge would be unfortunate.

To exceed, to go beyond.

She opened; but to shut / Excelled her power: the gates wide open stood […]

I reason, we could die : / The best vitality / Cannot excel decay; / But what of that?

Microsoft Excel, a spreadsheet application software program written and distributed by Microsoft.

“Do you know Excel?” ¶ “No.” ¶ “Could you learn?” ¶ “Probably not. I find it very difficult to learn things I don't already know.” Then, remembering the advice that I try to sell myself, I added, “But I'm sure I'd pick it up eventually.”