overexcite
Americanverb (used with object)
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“Now don’t overexcite yourself, Grandpa,” Mrs. Bucket said.
From "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" by Roald Dahl
Ron was very agitated; Madam Pomfrey would not let him go down to watch the match, feeling it would overexcite him.
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
To dwell upon the intended move might overexcite him.
From Kennedy Square by Francis Hopkinson Smith
Your brother will regain his health entirely," the great man had said, "if he is left in peace, and nothing happens to overexcite him.
From Prisoners Fast Bound In Misery And Iron by Mary Cholmondeley
"Did Dr. Hewitt's visit overexcite him, do you think?" he asked as they went.
From The Rose-Garden Husband by Margaret Widdemer
They’re not getting overexcited about a couple of wins in the group stage.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
“Are we in a phase where investors as a whole are overexcited about AI?” he said to a group of reporters in August.
From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2025
Asia White defines herself as an “idea person” — someone with an expansive imagination and a tendency to get overexcited.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 2024
Spurred on by hordes of fans overexcited on Bastille Day, Frenchman Quentin Pacher tried to go solo with 16 kilometers left.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 14, 2023
In the two-mile and the three-mile trials, the sophomores had gotten off the line badly, flailing at the water inefficiently, as if overexcited and flustered, and letting the older boys get out ahead of them.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
Gierek, a skillful pragmatist, has managed to carry out the changes without overexciting the volatile Poles or frightening the Soviet leaders, who are wary of any sudden change in Eastern Europe.
From Time Magazine Archive
A school is nothing nowadays—just by itself alone, I mean—it's only a part of a city's life—which for most tenement children is either very dull and hard, or cheap and false and overexciting.
From His Family by Ernest Poole
But twenty miles at a walk is not overexciting.
From Letters to Helen Impressions of an Artist on the Western Front by Keith Henderson
What is the danger from overexciting the emotions without giving them a proper outlet in some practical activity?
From The Mind and Its Education by George Herbert Betts
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