excess
Origin of excess
Synonyms for excess
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glut, waste, exuberance, surplus, overkill, extravagance, extreme, profusion, exorbitance, surfeit, plethora, superabundance, rest, wastefulness, residue, redundancy, lavishness, overload, enough, oversupplyExamples from the Web for excess
Contemporary Examples of excess
Shake off any excess flour and gently place in the heated oil.
The Senate Intelligence Committee report says they secured a contract with the CIA in 2006 valued “in excess of $180 million.”
By the way, killjoys, American charitable giving goes up by 42 percent during this season of crass materialistic greed and excess.
And some specialize in treating women, who have different risk factors for excess drinking.
“Most women are not drinking to excess because they feel ‘powerful’ in the first place,” she says.
Historical Examples of excess
That they would use the drug to excess there can be no doubt, and that is the main point.
It arose, I imagine, from an excess of the masculine element in his nature.
Weighed and WantingGeorge MacDonald
We are to be cured by an excess of the dose that has poisoned us.
A Treatise on Parents and ChildrenGeorge Bernard Shaw
Chip jerked open the door with a force greatly in excess of the need of it.
Chip, of the Flying UB. M. Bower
It is the deficiency, and not the excess of this quality, that is to be feared.
Tales And Novels, Volume 4 (of 10)Maria Edgeworth