excel

verb4

1. •
   To surpass someone or something; to be better or do better than someone or something.

   • I excelled everyone else with my exam results.
2. •
   [with oneself] To do much better than usual.

   • Everyone agreed Magnus really excelled himself this tournament.
3. •
   To be much better than others.

   • But it is as a destroyer of grasshoppers that the dickcissel excels. — 1901
4. •
   (no longer used, rare) To exceed, to go beyond.

   • She opened; but to shut / Excelled her power: the gates wide open stood […] — 1674