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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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554 words match “EXCESS”

OVERGROWTH n.
Excessive growth.
OVERHEAT v.
To heat to excess; to superheat. Cowper.
OVERHEAVY a.
Excessively heavy.
OVERINFLUENCE v.
To influence in an excessive degree; to have undue influence over.
OVERINFORM v.
To inform, fill, or animate, excessively. [R.] Johnson.
OVERISSUE n. 2 definitions
An excessive issue; an issue, as of notes or bonds, exceeding the limit of capital, credit, or authority. An overissue of government paper. Brougham.
OVERJEALOUS a.
Excessively jealous; too jealous.
OVERJOY v. 2 definitions
To make excessively joyful; to gratify extremely.
OVERLABOR v. 2 definitions
To cause to labor excessively; to overwork. Dryden.
OVERLARGENESS n.
Excess of size or bulk.
OVERLASH v.
To drive on rashly; to go to excess; hence, to exaggerate; to boast. [Obs.] Barrow.
OVERLASHING n.
Excess; exaggeration. [Obs.]
OVERLAVISH a.
Lavish to excess.
OVERLAY v.
To lay, or spread, something over or across; hence, to cover; to overwhelm; to press excessively upon. When any country is overlaid by the multitude which live upon it. Sir W. Raleigh. As when a cloud his beams doth overlay. Spenser. Framed of cedar overlaid with gold. Milton. And overlay With this portentous bridge th…
OVERLEAVEN v.
To leaven too much; hence, to change excessively; to spoil. [Obs.]
OVERLOAD v. 2 definitions
To load or fill to excess; to load too heavily.
OVERLOGICAL a.
Excessively logical; adhering too closely to the forms or rules of logic.
OVERLOVE v.
To love to excess.
OVERLUSCIOUS a.
Excessively luscious.
OVERLY a.
Excessive; too much. [R.] Coleridge.
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