surpass
v.to be even better or greater than someone or something else. You use this when a result is higher than what you expected.
v.to exceed a particular limit, expectation, or achievement; to be superior in quality or degree.
“The final sales figures surpass our original goals.”
“The athlete worked hard to surpass the world record during the summer games.”
“The beauty of the mountain range at sunset managed to surpass even the most vivid descriptions found in the travel guidebooks.”
The verb is transitive and requires a direct object representing the limit or person being exceeded.
Surpass is a transitive verb and does not take the preposition 'from'.
Usage surpassed with half · surpasses any previous
“Local officials in the DR Congo (DRC) reported on Tuesday that deaths from the Ebola virus disease have surpassed 2,000, with half of that number in the last 20 days.”
From Middle French surpasser (“to pass beyond”). By surface analysis, sur- + pass. Displaced native Old English oferstīgan (literally “to climb over”).
Etymology adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.