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| Date: | 1400-1500 |
| Language: | Latin |
| Origin: | excellere, from -cellere 'to rise, stick up' |
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ex‧cel
past tense and past participle excelled, present participle excelling
past tense and past participle excelled, present participle excelling1 [intransitive, not in progressive] to do something very well, or much better than most people
2 to do something better than you usually do : 
Graham has excelled himself with the new exhibition.
excel yourself
British EnglishGraham has excelled himself with the new exhibition.