overexcite
verb (used with object)
to excite too much.
overexcitable
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a word derived from
overexcite.
Example Sentences
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In other cases, you can actually hear what the authors had in mind, which you can’t always do amid overexcitable stagings.
From New York Times ● Jan. 19, 2023
She has a teacher’s calm, appropriate to the series’ purpose, and a talent for interacting with sometimes overexcitable puppets; she seems interested in what they have to say, and natural in her reactions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 16, 2021
To an education secretary, he said, “You really are a very overexcitable individual. You need to write out 1,000 times, ‘I will behave myself at Prime Minister’s Questions.’
From Washington Post ● May 29, 2019
Link to video: Wonder goal in Ecuador: in off the crossbar from the halfway line A tidy finish from near the halfway line, complete with overexcitable Ecuadorian commentary.
From The Guardian ● May 10, 2013
In E.'s case the overexcitable hypokinetic stage lasted until about the ninth year, and then there was a great improvement, though he still was of the same general type.
From The Foundations of Personality by Abraham Myerson
