overexcite
verb (used with object)
to excite too much.
overexcitement
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a word derived from
overexcite.
Example Sentences
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By the time of that stadium tour, we were all moved to separate mics and there was lots of oversinging and overexcitement because you’re selling so big.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 6, 2025
Calibration and the blessing of data are aimed, she says, “at making sure nobody, in overexcitement and not knowing everything about how an instrument behaves, goes off and interprets something that is not real.”
From Scientific American ● Dec. 19, 2018
The musicians, drunk on exhaustion or overexcitement, appeared to lose focus, and Gilbert switched from gently restraining the momentum to trying to manufacture it.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 24, 2014
Much like bored shopping, this feeling of overexcitement also falls “under the umbrella of sensation-seeking,” Rick says.
From Time ● Oct. 12, 2014
She had all the signs of fretful overexcitement, and it was made worse by her long confinement in this stuffy cabin.
From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman
