(v. t.) To go beyond or surpass in good qualities or laudable deeds; to outdo or outgo, in a good sense.
(v. t.) To exceed or go beyond; to surpass.
(v. i.) To surpass others in good qualities, laudable actions, or acquirements; to be distinguished by superiority; as, to excel in mathematics, or classics.
Example Sentences:
(1) This excellent prognosis supports a regimen of conservative therapy for these patients.
(2) It was concluded that metoclopramide and dexamethasone showed an excellent antiemetic effect on acute drug-induced emesis, as well as on delayed emesis, induced by cisplatin.
(3) Our experience indicates that lateral rhinotomy is a safe, repeatable and cosmetically sound procedure that provides and excellent surgical approach to the nasal cavity and sinuses.
(4) Excellent correlations were observed between computer and manual methods for both systems.
(5) GlaxoSmithKline was unusually critical of the decision by Nice, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, and also the Scottish Medicines Consortium, to reject its drug belimumab (brand name Benlysta) in final draft guidance.
(6) Although there was already satisfaction in the development of dementia-friendly pharmacies and Pride in Practice, a new standard of excellence in healthcare for gay, lesbian and bisexual patients, the biggest achievement so far was the bringing together of a strategic partnership of 37 NHS, local government and social organisations.
(7) Nice (the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence) has also published new guidance on good patient experience that provides a strong framework on which to build good engagement practice.
(8) Grafts of intermediate thickness (M III) showed excellent clinical healing of the donor and the recipient site.
(9) "If you look at the price HP paid, it was an excellent deal for the Autonomy shareholders.
(10) An excellent correlation was found between pulmonary artery systolic pressure measured by CW Doppler and catheterization (r = 0.98).
(11) Among patients in whom the neuroma had been operated on once previously (first recurrence group), 88% achieved good to excellent pain relief with the technique described in this article.
(12) The diagnosis of an arterial injury may be readily apparent, but the excellent upper-extremity collateral circulation may create palpable distal pulses despite a significant proximal arterial injury.
(13) All 4 patients subsequently had excellent subjective responses to MPA treatment, lasting for several months.
(14) The prognosis of meningococcal arthritis is excellent and joint sequelae are rare.
(15) These lesions had an excellent prognosis with a control rate of 100%.
(16) Patients treated with ciprofloxacin may need added coverage for anaerobes, but the drug's excellent activity against nosocomial pathogens and its availability in oral form allow for an early change to oral therapy without compromising effectiveness coupled with added savings and convenience.
(17) This procedure yields excellent precision and accuracy, as demonstrated by the analysis of a known amino acid mixture and of neonatal plasma.
(18) Thus, in spite of its excellent activity and unquestionable effectiveness, rifampicin should be used with caution in severe staphylococcal infections.
(19) This study was designed to compare these levels in hirsute women, normal premenopausal and postmenopausal women, and in men and to correlate each measurement with skin 5 alpha-reductase activity (5 alpha-RA), an excellent correlate of androgenicity.
(20) Computed tomography gave excellent visualization of prostate morphology and pelvic anatomic relationships.
Outplay
Definition:
(v. t.) To excel or defeat in a game; to play better than; as, to be outplayed in tennis or ball.
Example Sentences:
(1) The promising world No72 was comprehensively outplayed in the second set and regularly looked to her coaches in frustration.
(2) Football Weekly Extra: City through, Arsenal out, and the biggest Tyne-Wear derby for decades Read more Chelsea and Arsenal were outplayed by superior teams in the knockout rounds.
(3) Southampton must be optimistic for the rest of the season too, after nervelessly outplaying Liverpool on their own turf.
(4) But we are now faced with a fight to reach that objective and feel a change is necessary to maximise the opportunity presented by the final 13 games.” Leicester City’s triumph: the inside story of an extraordinary season | Stuart James Read more Ranieri was informed of the decision on his return from the club’s Champions League last-16 tie against Sevilla when, to put Leicester’s season into context, the champions of England came back from Spain seemingly happy with a 2-1 defeat in which they were largely outplayed.
(5) You can be sure that Murray won't tire, even if he is outplayed.
(6) After beating the Ghana team that had eliminated them from each of the past two World Cups, they followed up on Sunday by outplaying a Portugal side that – despite some notable injury problems – still had the Fifa World Player of the Year at its disposal.
(7) We were totally outplayed and England deserved all three points.
(8) The Spurs defender Toby Alderweireld, who was one of just four players to retain his place from last weekend’s Premier League draw against Arsenal, admitted they had been outplayed.
(9) Manchester United had been outplayed, it was plain to see and for the losing manager the ordeal was so great, the jolt so shuddering, there have been times since when it has felt like he has wanted to shut it out of his life.
(10) Prior to that Italy simply found themselves outplayed by younger and pacier opponents.
(11) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Pinterest close 1.47am GMT Real Salt Lake I was at the stadium when Real Salt Lake outshot, outplayed and generally bombarded D.C. United in the Open Cup final in September, only to watch their opponents score with the one chance they had, and their own efforts seemingly defy the laws of physics in staying out.
(12) Watching Robert Pires dribbling his way out of trouble in his own penalty area late in the game, it was possible to reflect that Arsenal did not just play United off the park, they outplayed them in all areas of the park.
(13) Belief began to flicker and, when a Hitzlsperger free-kick was headed across the face of the Wigan goal by James Tomkins and bundled in by Ba,, who finished amid the netting, it flared, fuelled by news from St Andrew's, where Birmingham City, who would have relegated West Ham with a point, were being hopelessly outplayed by Fulham.
(14) Yet Peterborough are a side capable of winning any one-off tie at this level, as they proved when they lifted the Johnstone's Paint Trophy in March despite having been outplayed for large spells of the game by Chesterfield of League Two.
(15) Madrid were outplayed in Rafa Benítez’s first clásico as coach – a clásico in which he fielded a side that did not feel much like his own.
(16) Against Ghana, he made four saves to help the USA win despite being outplayed.
(17) Ultimately, however, United were comprehensively outplayed and fortunate it was not a more punishing result.
(18) Outplayed, they were complacent and missed the rested Paul Scholes.
(19) They do it to teams week in, week out, outplaying them and beating them.
(20) Instead Wigan outthought and outplayed a Manchester City side who were sluggish, out of synch and reckless, no one more so than Pablo Zabaleta, who joined Kevin Moran and José Antonio Reyes in being the only players to be sent off in an FA Cup final.