Does anyone know a single word antonym for the verb 'exceed' besides the dubious 'undershoot' (meaning 'fall short of' or 'fall below'). Thanks.

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http://www.yourdictionary.com/cgi-bin/agora/agora.cgi?board=what;action=display;num=1093927923

Based on some paper thesaurus entries, perhaps 'underdo' or 'underrun'? 'Underperform' is prevalent in financial reports but falls short as a polar opposite of exceed.

-Spell-check seems to dislike all three.

(ea) falls short as a polar opposite of exceed.

Couldn't "just enough" be an opposing *concept for "exceed".

The best one-word solution that comes to my mind is miss, especially when talking of a target or a minimal expectation.

The Indians have (afaik without reference to our leader) coined the splendid word "prepone" as an opposite of "postpone"; so let us here do the same.

The opposite of "exceed" is clearly "subceed". Google produces 29 non-redundant results; some of which are clearly misspellings of other words; but some intentional antonyms.

I shall henceforth use "subceed" on all possible occasions. eg in autobiography - "he routinely subceeded early expectations"

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Yeah, I think we spoke of prepone on AWAD once before - I don't think you'll hear too many dissenting voices around here either. As for subceed - that would be a fairly obvious move too, no doubt. I'm not sure I can use it too freely in writing just yet though.

Thought that was a flashback at first, but that was something of a snarl. Glad you caught it.

Glad you caught it. Oh, that was great!