From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishgo beyond something phrasal verbto be much better, worse, more serious etc than something else Their relationship had gone beyond friendship. This goes beyond all limits of acceptable behaviour. → go→ See Verb table
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go beyond • Over half did not go beyond 10 miles, and more than half of the remainder stayed within 20.• They have gone beyond consumers' expectations.• You will also gain a perspective of the work that goes beyond job titles to the skills that are used.• For this reason affirmative assessment must go beyond seeing anxiety anger, guilt and sadness as simply newly learned reactions.• But his aspirations go beyond the global: he envisions outer space as his next frontier.• But unlike many such exhibits, this goes beyond the typical tan, gold and mint-green renderings of life in the past.• Excess: action or conduct that goes beyond the usual, reasonable, or lawful limit.• Hardly surprisingly, given the size of the market, most of these texts have never gone beyond their first editions. 