Eclipse Meaning Verb. -- said of a heavenly body. As the moon eclipses the sun.
The passing into the shadow of a celestial body compare occultation transit. The headline above uses eclipse in the sense of achieved a result that is above X and not in the sense of achieved a result which puts the other result in its shadow. MW dictionary lists exceed as one of the translations but I gather it is in the sense of exceed an achievement or result made by someone else or at an earlier time.
To cause the obscuration of.
To darken or hide. The state of the economy has eclipsed all other issues during the election campaign. Find out which words work together and produce more natural sounding English with the Oxford Collocations Dictionary app. Definition of ECLIPSE verb.
