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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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underwhelm
shortfall
disappointed
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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.
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(ea) falls short as a polar opposite of exceed. 
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Couldn't "just enough" be an opposing *concept for "exceed". 
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The best one-word solution that comes to my mind is miss, especially when talking of a target or a minimal expectation.
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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.
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Thought that was a flashback at first, but that was something of a snarl.  Glad you caught it.
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Glad you caught it. Oh, that was great!
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