"transcend" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

IPA: /tɹæn(t)ˈsɛnd/ Audio: en-us-transcend.ogg Forms: transcends [present, singular, third-person], transcending [participle, present], transcended [participle, past], transcended [past]
Rhymes: -ɛnd Etymology: From Middle English transcenden, from Old French transcender, from Latin transcendere (“to climb over, step over, surpass, transcend”), from trans (“over”) + scandere (“to climb”); see scan; compare ascend, descend. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|transcenden}} Middle English transcenden, {{der|en|fro|transcender}} Old French transcender, {{der|en|la|transcendere||to climb over, step over, surpass, transcend}} Latin transcendere (“to climb over, step over, surpass, transcend”) Head templates: {{en-verb}} transcend (third-person singular simple present transcends, present participle transcending, simple past and past participle transcended)
  1. (transitive) To pass beyond the limits of something. Tags: transitive Synonyms (to pass beyond the limits of something): exceed Translations (to pass beyond the limits of something): надхвърлям (nadhvǎrljam) (Bulgarian), превишавам (previšavam) (Bulgarian), ultrapassar (Catalan), transcendir (Catalan), 超越 (chāoyuè) (Chinese Mandarin), překonat (Czech), overstijgen (Dutch), ylittää (Finnish), transcender (French), übersteigen (German), supero (Latin), transcender (Portuguese), переступа́ть преде́лы (perestupátʹ predély) [imperfective] (Russian), transcendirati (Serbo-Croatian), trascender (Spanish), aşmak (Turkish)
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  2. (transitive) To surpass, as in intensity or power; to excel. Tags: transitive Synonyms (to surpass something): better Translations (to surpass something in intensity or power; to excel): превъзхождам (prevǎzhoždam) (Bulgarian), ultrapassar (Catalan), transcendir (Catalan), 超越 (chāoyuè) (Chinese Mandarin), ylittää (Finnish), превосходи́ть (prevosxodítʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), превыша́ть (prevyšátʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), prevazići (Serbo-Croatian), nadići (Serbo-Croatian), shinda (Swahili)
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  3. (obsolete) To climb; to mount. Tags: obsolete Synonyms (to climb): ascend
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Hyponyms: clear, cross the line [idiomatic], go too far [idiomatic] Derived forms: transcendence, transcendency, transcendent, transcendental, transcendentalism, transcendentalist, transcendentally, transcending, transcension

Inflected forms

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