v
To promote with bombast, exaggeration, or outright falsehood; to hype or sensationalize.
v
(British spelling, transitive) To explain or elaborate at length or in excessive detail; overelaborate.
n
The fraudulent business practice of inflating sales figures by forcing more products through a distribution channel than the channel is capable of selling.
v
(transitive) To exercise excessive or damaging authority in an attempt to protect. To overprotect.
n
An overwhelming amount of something; anything that overwhelms or causes great destruction.
v
To overstate, to describe more than is fact.
v
(transitive, Australia, agriculture) To overexploit (land), as by overgrazing, overstocking, etc.
v
To pay more than one should have; to pay more than fair market value.
v
(intransitive, idiomatic) To go too far; to exceed reasonable bounds.
v
(of projects) To incorporate costly or otherwise excessive features or refinements unnecessarily, to overengineer.
adj
(exercise) That places a great deal of harmful stresses on the body.
n
Taking up too much of something so others cannot use it.
v
To colonize excessively.
v
To constrict excessively
v
(pathology) To contract excessively
v
(transitive) To emphasize very strongly.
v
To exaggerate to an extreme degree.
v
(transitive) To immunize excessively.
v
(transitive) To inflate excessively.
v
To apply an excessive load
v
To oxygenate excessively
v
To produce to an excessive degree.
v
(anatomy) To pronate beyond the normal range of motion.
v
Regulate to an excessive degree; stifle with a plethora of rules.
v
(transitive, intransitive, endocrinology) To secrete excessively.
v
(transitive) To stimulate to an excessive degree.
v
To assign a higher value than is necessary or appropriate; to overvalue.
adj
(economics): In a state of higher cost.
n
Undue expansion or increase, as of academic grades.
v
(idiomatic) To exaggerate or overstate a feeling or emotion.
v
To hire (somebody for work or a job) for which the person is overqualified or overeducated.
v
To manage, direct, or control a person, group, or system to an unnecessary level of detail or precision.
v
(intransitive, colloquial, construed with over) To think or talk obsessively about.
v
(dated) To spend more than one's income; to get into debt.
adv
(often in compounds) To an excessive degree; overly.
v
Nonstandard spelling of overcelebrate. [To overindulge and stay up too late in activities that celebrate something; to party too hard.]
v
To be too accommodating.
n
Alternative form of overburning [The action of overburning; excessive burning.]
adj
Alternative form of overburnt [Being burnt for far too long; excessively burnt.]
v
Alternative spelling of overclock [(computing) To run a processor (CPU), or any electronic logic device, at a speed higher than is recommended by the manufacturer.]
n
Alternative spelling of overeducation [(of a person) The state of being overeducated; the state when an individual feels overburdened or oppressed by the weight of their education.]
v
To embellish too much, to exaggerate.
v
Alternative form of overfire [(transitive) To create too large a fire in a fireplace, furnace, firebox, etc.]
v
Alternative spelling of overindulge [(transitive, intransitive) To indulge to excess.]
v
Alternative spelling of overpronate. [To pronate to an excessive degree.]
n
Alternative spelling of overpronation. [the act of pronating too much]
v
To esteem too highly; to give greater praise than due.
adj
Alternative spelling of overripe [Excessively ripe; spoiled; gone bad.]
v
Alternative form of oversecrete [(medicine) to secrete excessively]
v
Alternative spelling of oversupinate. [To supinate to an excessive degree.]
n
Alternative spelling of oversupination. [The act of supinating too much.]
n
Alternative spelling of overtourism [Excessive tourism.]
v
(transitive) To absorb too much of.
v
To abstract excessively.
v
(transitive, intransitive) To accelerate too much.
v
(transitive) To accent too much.
v
(intransitive) To adorn oneself with too many accessories.
v
(transitive) To be too accommodating towards.
v
To accumulate excessively
v
To achieve more or at a higher level of quality than was expected.
v
(obsolete, transitive) To act upon, or influence, unduly.
v
(transitive, intransitive) To adapt excessively.
v
(transitive) To adjust excessively or too precisely.
v
To advertise excessively.
v
(transitive, obsolete) To care for unduly.
n
A surplus of inventory or capacity or of cash that is greater than the amount in the record of an account.
v
To make greater than is appropriate.
v
(transitive) To aggravate excessively.
v
(intransitive) To agonize excessively.
v
(transitive) To allocate too much of.
v
To amplify to an extent that is undesirably loud.
v
To anaesthetize excessively
v
Alternative spelling of overanalyze [To analyze too much or in too much detail.]
v
To analyze too much or in too much detail.
v
(transitive) To give too much anesthetic to.
v
(transitive) To animate excessively.
v
To add too many annotations.
v
(intransitive) To apologize excessively.
v
(transitive) To form an overapproximation of.
v
(transitive, intransitive) To argue excessively.
v
(transitive) To arrange excessively or too precisely.
v
(transitive) To articulate excessively.
v
(transitive) To assert too forcefully.
v
To assist to an excessive degree.
v
(intransitive) To attend too much; to pay too much attention (to).
v
(transitive) To attribute overmuch.
v
To continue revising a work past the point where the revisions improve the work.
v
(transitive) To bake for too long.
n
An instance of something being overbalanced.
v
(of an aircraft) To bank excessively
adj
(cooking) Coated in too much batter.
v
(intransitive) To produce an overabundance of fruit.
v
To bend to excess; to bend too far.
v
To use more bias current in an analog magnetic recorder than is required for maximum sensitivity.
n
An excessively high offer to pay or accept a price.
v
(transitive) To bill an excessive amount, particularly an amount greater than one is legally entitled to.
v
To bind or restrict to an excessive extent.
v
To use excessive acid in an etching process, so that the result is too deep.
v
(transitive) To blacken excessively.
v
(transitive) To blame excessively.
v
(transitive) To bleach too much.
v
(intransitive) to bleed excessively
v
(botany) To produce an excessive amount of flowers or algae.
v
(transitive) To exaggerate the significance of something.
v
(transitive, intransitive) To boast excessively.
v
(transitive, intransitive) To boil excessively.
v
(transitive) To sell or guarantee more seats for (an event) than actually exist.
n
(countable) An instance of overboosting.
v
To borrow too much money.
v
To specify or use boundaries that are too large; to have boundaries that encompass more than the entirety of an entity.
v
(transitive, intransitive) To brake (a vehicle) excessively; to apply the brake too much.
v
(marketing) To use too many brands (proprietary names in marketing).
v
(transitive) To give too large a bribe to.
v
(transitive) To make too broad.
v
(transitive, poetic) To brood over.
v
(cooking, transitive) To brown too much.
v
(transitive, intransitive) To browse (eat vegetation) too much, to the detriment of the environment.
v
To budget a greater amount that is needed.
v
(intransitive) To construct more buildings than necessary in an area.
n
A person or organization that overbuilds.
v
(intransitive, figuratively) To be overzealous.
adj
Being burnt for far too long; excessively burnt.
v
To buy at an inflated price.
v
To imbibe or cause to imbibe too much caffeine.
n
An extra amount called up beyond the minimum required.
v
To cancel too many or too forcefully.
v
(transitive) To exhaust the capacity of.
v
(transitive) to capitalize a business beyond a sustainable level
v
(intransitive) To care too much.
v
(transitive, obsolete) To overcharge; overburden; harass.
v
(intransitive) To go to excess.
v
(transitive) To carve too much or too deeply.
v
(transitive) To categorize more than is suitable or necessary.
v
To overindulge and stay up too late in activities that celebrate something; to party too hard.
v
(transitive) To centralize too much.
v
(transitive) To certify beyond the actual value.
v
(transitive) To challenge to an excessive degree.
n
An excessive charge in an account.
v
(transitive) To check or verify more than necessary.
v
(transitive) To cherish excessively.
v
(transitive) To chew too much.
v
(transitive) To chill too much.
v
(transitive) To chlorinate excessively.
v
(rare) To choreograph with too much or too elaborate dancing.
v
(transitive, intransitive) To cite too much.
v
(transitive) To claim too much.
v
(transitive) To classify excessively
v
(transitive) To clean to an excessive degree.
v
(transitive) To fill beyond satiety.
v
(transitive) To coddle too much; to treat with too much care.
v
To code too many things or include too many codes in a coding system.
v
(transitive) To collateralize for too large an amount.
v
(transitive) To exaggerate.
v
(transitive) To comb too much.
v
(transitive) To commend excessively.
v
(transitive) To make excessively commercial.
v
(uncommon) To commission to an excessive extent.
v
To make excessive commitments, either beyond one's ability or beyond what is reasonable
adj
Having committed too much of one's time or resources.
v
To communicate too much.
v
(transitive) To compartmentalize more than is suitable or necessary.
v
(intransitive) To do an excessive amount in one area in an effort to overcome a perceived lack in another area.
v
(transitive) To make something excessively complicated.
v
(transitive) To compliment excessively.
v
(transitive) To compress too much.
v
To concentrate excessively.
v
(transitive) To concern excessively.
v
(intransitive) To conform to a greater extent than necessary or desirable.
adj
(of soil) consolidated to a greater extent than that due to the overburden
v
To apply excessive constraints (to)
v
(transitive) To place too great a construction upon; to exaggerate.
v
(transitive) To contextualize excessively.
v
To contribute in excess of a standard or expectation.
v
(transitive) To control to too great a degree.
n
A person who (tries to) controls excessively
v
(transitive, slang) To do something to excess; to overdo.
v
To correct too sharply or too much
v
(transitive) To count more of something than are actually present, or to count one thing disproportionately more than another
v
(transitive) To give too much coverage (as for example on television).
v
To cultivate land excessively and thus exhaust its fertility
v
(transitive) To cultivate excessively.
v
(transitive, dated) To overencumber.
v
(transitive) To cure (meat, etc.) excessively.
adj
(participial adjective) Excessively cut.
v
(intransitive) To dare too much or rashly; to be too daring.
v
To have too many dealings.
v
To decorate or embellish to an excessive degree
v
To defer a larger amount than one should.
v
(transitive) To define too rigidly, or in too much depth.
v
To deliver in excess of a norm, standard, or requirement.
v
(transitive) To depress excessively.
v
To provide an overly detailed description.
v
(transitive, intransitive) To design too specifically or to too great an extent, as by including unnecessary features.
v
(transitive) To detect more of (something) than is actually present.
v
(of a problem or question) To give too many constraints, so that no solution is available.
v
(photography) To develop a photographic film for too long
v
(transitive) To dilute excessively.
v
(transitive) To take an excessive, overbearing role in directing (a play or film).
v
(transitive) To discipline excessively.
v
(transitive) To discount too much.
v
To discuss too long or too often.
v
To distribute too much or too widely.
v
(transitive, intransitive) To cause or undergo overdiuresis.
v
To diversify excessively.
v
(transitive) To document something in greater detail than necessary.
v
(transitive) To domesticate excessively.
v
To dominate excessively.
v
(transitive) To dose to excess; to give an overdose, or too many doses, to.
n
(countable) The maximum amount that may be overdrawn.
v
(transitive) To drain excessively.
v
(British spelling) Alternative spelling of overdramatize [To dramatize to excess; to make overdramatic.]
v
To dramatize to excess; to make overdramatic.
n
(chiefly Britain) An overdraft.
v
(rare) To dream (about) excessively.
v
(transitive) To drive too hard, or far, or beyond strength.
v
(obsolete, transitive) To wet or drench to excess.
v
(transitive) To drug too heavily.
adj
(agriculture) fertilized with too much dung
v
(transitive) To dust with too much powder.
v
(intransitive) To eat too much.
v
To edit something too much.
v
Alternative spelling of over-egg [To overembellish.]
v
To elaborate excessively; to go into too much detail.
v
To embellish excessively.
v
(transitive) to embrace too often or to an excessive degree
v
(transitive) To embroider excessively.
v
(transitive) To make too emotional.
v
To place too much emphasis on; to overstate the importance of.
v
To encapsulate excessively
v
(transitive, fantasy) To enchant excessively.
v
(transitive) To encumber excessively.
n
An excessive encumbrance.
v
To make something more complicated than necessary; often implies that the complexity was added intentionally.
v
(transitive) To enjoy too much.
v
(transitive) To enrich excessively.
v
(transitive, intransitive) To enunciate too strongly.
v
(transitive) To furnish with too much equipment.
v
(transitive) To evaluate and rank too highly; overvalue.
v
To exaggerate, to overstate excessively.
v
To excite to an excessive degree
v
To exercise to an excessive degree.
v
To exert (oneself) to an excessive degree
v
To exfoliate excessively.
v
(transitive) To exoticize excessively; to make something appear overly exotic.
v
To expand to an excessive or unwise degree
v
(transitive) To explain at unnecessary length or in too much detail.
v
To expand or extend to an excessive degree, especially to do so beyond a safe limit.
v
(transitive) To farm too much.
v
(transitive) To fatten excessively.
v
(transitive) To favor excessively; to treat with undue preference.
v
Alternative form of overfavor [(transitive) To favor excessively; to treat with undue preference.]
v
(transitive) To fawn or flatter grossly or excessively.
v
(transitive) To feature excessively.
v
(transitive) To feed a person or animal too much.
v
To feel excessively or to too great an extent.
v
To ferment for too long; allow or exhibit too much fermentation.
v
(transitive) To treat (plants) with too much fertilizer.
v
To subject to overfiltration.
v
(transitive) To finance too much.
v
(transitive, ceramics) To fire at a high (or excessively high) temperature.
v
(transitive, intransitive) To fish excessively, often substantially reducing over several years the supply of one or more species of fish in an area.
v
(statistics) To use a statistical model that has too many parameters relative to the size of the sample leading to a good fit with the sample data but a poor fit with new data.
v
(transitive) To fix exceedingly or excessively; fix beyond what is required
v
(transitive) To flatten too much.
v
(transitive) To flatter unduly or excessively; to overpraise.
v
(transitive) To flavor excessively.
v
(obsolete) To make excessive display or flourish of.
v
(intransitive) To be superabundant; to abound.
v
To produce too many flowers.
v
To focus excessively (on a particular subject to the exclusion of others)
v
(transitive) To fondle excessively.
v
(transitive) To use too much formatting on (text or a document).
v
(transitive) To fortify excessively.
v
(transitive) To foul excessively.
v
To pay excessive franking credits.
v
(intransitive, reflexive) To fret excessively.
v
(transitive) To fry for too long.
v
To do more than is necessary to fulfil something
v
To fulfill (a quota etc) more than is necessary
v
(psychology) To take responsibility for other people's actions
v
To supply with more funds than necessary or appropriate
v
(transitive) To furnish excessively.
v
(transitive) To apply too much gain to (a signal).
v
(transitive) To gird too closely.
v
(transitive, intransitive) To give too lavishly.
v
(transitive) To glamorize too much.
v
(transitive, intransitive) To govern with too much rigidity or precision.
v
To grace or honour exceedingly or beyond what is deserved.
v
To award too high a grade to a student or a piece of work.
adj
(obsolete) Overstocked, or overgrown, or covered, with grass.
v
(intransitive) to allow animals to graze excessively
v
(transitive) To grind excessively.
adj
(aviation) Carrying too much weight to fly properly.
n
An excessive growth or increase in numbers, as in a population of weeds or microbes.
v
To guarantee excessively.
v
(transitive) To hallow excessively; make (something) too holy or hallowed
v
(transitive) To handicap excessively.
v
(transitive) To handle excessively.
v
(transitive) To harass excessively.
v
To harvest too much, especially at an unsustainably high level
v
To hasten excessively; to rush
v
(transitive) To heap too high; heap up excessively; supply too much of.
v
(transitive) To heighten excessively.
v
To supply with too much help.
v
(transitive) To overvalue; overestimate; hold or estimate at too dear a rate.
v
(transitive) To hollow excessively.
v
(transitive) To homogenize to excess.
v
To hope excessively; presume.
v
(transitive, intransitive) To hug excessively or too much.
v
(transitive) To hunt (an animal, a piece of land, etc.) too much.
v
(transitive, intransitive) To hydrate too much.
v
(transitive) To promote or publicize excessively.
v
(transitive) To idealize to too great an extent.
v
(intransitive) To identify too much (with another person or thing).
v
(transitive) To illustrate excessively.
v
(transitive) To imagine with excessively elaborate detail, or in an exaggerated fashion.
v
(transitive) To imitate excessively.
v
(transitive) To import too much of.
v
(transitive) To impose too much or too often.
v
(transitive) To impress too much.
v
(transitive) To incarcerate too many of (a certain group).
v
(programming, transitive) To attempt to access an element beyond the bounds of (an array).
v
(transitive, intransitive) To indulge to excess.
v
(transitive) To industrialize to an excessive degree.
v
To inflate excessively; to provide too much inflation
v
(transitive) To influence unduly or excessively.
v
(transitive) To apply too much ink to.
v
(transitive) To institutionalize excessively.
v
To instruct excessively.
v
(transitive) To insure for too great a value.
v
To invest an excessive amount.
v
(transitive) To irrigate excessively.
v
(economics) To issue shares or banknotes to an extent beyond the ability to pay, or in excess of authorization
v
(transitive) To judge excessively or too harshly.
v
(transitive, psychology) Specifically, to provide external incentive for an already-internally-motivated behavior, thereby risking the loss of the original motivation.
v
(transitive) To keep or observe too strictly.
v
To do something excessive to achieve a goal.
v
Alternative form of overlabour [(transitive) To cause to labour excessively; to overwork.]
v
(transitive) To cause to labour excessively; to overwork.
v
(transitive) To lead excessively or too much.
v
To learn (something) more than is necessary; to study excessively, to take (something) too much to heart.
v
(obsolete) To leaven too much.
v
To create more rules than is necessary or sensible.
v
(transitive) To lengthen too much.
v
(finance) To leverage excessively
v
(transitive) To lick too much or too often.
v
(transitive) To illuminate too brightly.
v
(transitive) To treat (soil) with too much lime.
adj
(finance) Having more money being charged on a credit card than what is available as credit.
v
To litigate excessively.
v
(intransitive) To live too fast, too luxuriously, or too actively.
v
(transitive) To provide too much power to a circuit.
v
(transitive) To make the bolt of a lock go too far.
v
(transitive) To lubricate excessively.
v
(transitive) To make a greater quantity than needed; overproduce; overdo.
v
(transitive, business) To manage excessively; to micromanage.
v
(transitive) To manipulate too much.
v
(agriculture, transitive) To fertilize with too much manure.
v
(transitive) To cause to march too far, or too often; to exhaust by marching.
v
(finance) To invest too much on margin, increasing risk and limiting operating capital.
v
(transitive, intransitive) To market excessively.
v
To match more than intended.
v
To measure or estimate with a result that is larger than it should be.
v
(transitive) To medicalize too much.
v
(transitive) To melt too much.
v
(transitive) To make too loud by means of a poorly positioned microphone.
v
To militarize excessively, or to overemphasize military solutions and approaches
v
(transitive) To milk (a cow or other animal) too much.
v
(transitive) To mine excessively.
v
(horticulture) To mist a plant excessively.
v
(transitive, intransitive) To moderate excessively.
v
To modernize excessively.
v
(transitive) To modulate too much.
v
To add too much liquid when moistening; to make overly moist.
v
To take out a mortgage for too much money.
v
(transitive) To mother somebody too much; to mollycoddle.
v
(intransitive) To multiply or increase too much; to repeat too often.
v
(obsolete, rare, transitive) To overpower with noise.
v
(transitive) To nourish excessively.
v
(transitive) To objectify excessively.
adj
Having too many occupants.
v
(transitive) To oil too much.
v
To perform too many surgical operations.
v
To optimize excessively.
v
(transitive) To plan too elaborately.
v
(transitive, intransitive) To order too much or too many.
v
(transitive) To organize in too much detail.
v
(transitive) To ornament excessively.
v
(intransitive) To pack too much.
v
(transitive) To package wastefully in more material than necessary.
v
(transitive) To pad excessively; to fill with too much padding.
v
(transitive) To pamper excessively.
v
Alternative form of overparameterize [(transitive, intransitive, statistics) To use an excessive number of parameters.]
v
(transitive, intransitive, statistics) To use an excessive number of parameters.
v
To parametrize excessively
v
To use excessive parenthesis.
v
(transitive) To divide into too many partitions.
v
(transitive, intransitive) To pay too much.
v
(music, intransitive) To overuse the sustaining pedal of a piano, causing the notes to sound too loud.
v
(transitive) To peel too much off.
v
(transitive) To people too densely; overpopulate.
v
(transitive) To season with too much pepper.
v
(transitive) To perceive to a greater degree than actually exists.
v
(finance) Of an investment, to provide a financial result superior to what was expected.
v
Alternative form of overpersonalize [To attribute the too much of the cause of something to personal decisions and willpower, and not enough to other factors.]
v
To attribute the too much of the cause of something to personal decisions and willpower, and not enough to other factors.
v
(transitive) To pet excessively.
v
(transitive) To pile too high.
v
(transitive) To give too high a pitch to.
v
(transitive) To place too high in a ranking.
v
(transitive) To plan in too much detail.
v
(intransitive) To plant too many plants (of any particular crop).
v
(transitive) To play (a song or record) too frequently.
v
Alternative spelling of overplough [To plough excessively.]
v
To pluck something too much, usually one's eyebrows
v
(transitive) To ply to excess; to exert with too much vigour; to overwork.
n
(chiefly figuratively) That which outweighs; excessive weight.
v
To police too much, as by patrolling a neighborhood excessively or meting out a punishment incommensurate to the severity of a crime.
v
(transitive) To polish too much.
v
(transitive) To politicize excessively.
v
To polymerize excessively
v
To fill with too many individuals; to exceed the capacity of a region to contain the population.
v
To post too much or too often.
v
(transitive) To place (a plant) in too large a pot.
v
(transitive) To use too much powder on.
n
The process of something being overpowered.
v
(transitive) To prescribe (a drug) more frequently than appropriate.
v
(transitive) To overcome by importunity.
v
Alternative spelling of overpressurize [(transitive) To pressurize excessively.]
v
(transitive) To pressurize excessively.
v
To give a commodity an excessive price.
v
(transitive) To prime with too much fuel.
v
To assign too high a priority to.
v
(transitive) To prize excessively; to overvalue.
v
(transitive) To process to too great a degree.
v
(music, derogatory) To apply excess modifications to musical recordings, such as adding effects.
v
(transitive, intransitive) To include too much in a program, scheme or schedule.
v
Alternative form of overprogram [(transitive, intransitive) To include too much in a program, scheme or schedule.]
v
To proliferate excessively.
v
To promise more than is delivered.
v
(transitive) To promote excessively.
v
To pronate to an excessive degree.
v
(transitive) To give an exaggerated pronunciation to.
v
(transitive, baking) To proof (allow dough containing yeast to rise) excessively.
v
(transitive) To prosecute (a crime) excessively.
v
(transitive) to prove excessively or beyond what is asked or required
v
To provide more than is necessary.
v
(transitive, horticulture) To prune too much.
v
(transitive) To psychologize excessively.
v
(transitive) To publicize excessively.
v
(transitive) To publish excessively.
v
To punctuate excessively.
v
(obsolete, intransitive) To pay too dear a price.
v
(transitive) To pursue too far.
n
A push which is overly forceful
v
(transitive) To modify, restrict or moderate (a statement, etc.) excessively.
v
(transitive) To quantify too much; to interpret with too great a focus on numbers, quotas, etc.
v
(transitive, intransitive) To give a quotation (price estimate) that is too high.
v
(transitive) To race too often.
adj
Excessively racked; placed under too much strain or duress.
v
(transitive) To rationalize excessively.
v
(transitive, intransitive, now rare) To deceive, to swindle.
v
(transitive) To interpret something to a greater degree, or in a more positive way, than appropriate; read too in-depth; overinterpret; overanalyze.
v
To recover more money than was actually owed.
v
To reference too much or too often.
v
(transitive) To refine to an excessive degree.
v
(linguistics, intransitive) To apply (a rule of language) too widely.
v
To regulate to a greater degree than appropriate
v
(transitive) To relax excessively.
v
To rely too much (on something or someone); to be overly dependent (on) or expectant (about).
v
(transitive) To rent for too much.
v
To replicate excessively
v
(transitive) To represent as being higher or greater than it is.
v
(finance, intransitive) To put an excessive amount of money in reserve.
v
(intransitive) To respond excessively.
v
(transitive) To restrict excessively.
v
(medicine, transitive) To administer an excessive amount of fluid during an attempt to resuscitate (somebody).
v
(transitive) To rev (an engine or vehicle) too much.
v
(transitive) To reward excessively.
v
To act high-handedly, overreaching one's authority.
n
An instance of registering too large an amount on a cash register, either accidentally or fraudulently.
v
To ripen too much; to become overripe.
v
(transitive) To roast too much.
v
(transitive) To romanticize too much.
v
(transitive, intransitive) To rotate too far.
v
Alternative form of outrun the constable [(dated) To spend more than one's income; to get into debt.]
n
One who, or that which, overruns.
n
The sale of more of something than can be supplied.
v
(cooking) To add too much salt to (something)
v
(transitive) To sand excessively.
v
(transitive) To do more than satisfy; to go beyond the requirements or wants of.
v
(intransitive) To save more money than is necessary or prudent.
v
(transitive) To give too much scent to (something or someone); to scent excessively.
v
(transitive) To overfill the schedule of.
v
(transitive, intransitive, music) To score (a piece of music) for too many instruments.
adj
(music) scored for too many instruments (or types of instrument)
v
(transitive) To season (flavour) too much.
v
(medicine) to secrete excessively
v
(transitive) To sedate excessively.
v
(rare) To sow excessively, at overdensity of seeds per unit area.
v
(transitive) To select (something) more than would be expected.
v
(transitive) To be too eager in attempting to sell something.
v
To send an amount greater than what is required; to oversupply.
v
To sense or detect too much, or more than is actually present.
v
(transitive) To sentimentalize excessively.
v
(transitive) To serve too much (especially alcohol to an intoxicated person).
v
(transitive) To provide with excessive service.
v
(transitive) To sexualize excessively.
v
(transitive) To shampoo excessively.
v
(transitive) To shape, form, or manipulate excessively.
n
An instance of sharing or divulging too much.
adj
(informal) Tending to share too much
v
(transitive, photography) To sharpen too much.
v
(economics) To raise the price to consumers by more than an underlying cost increase that results from rising taxes.
n
(countable) The amount by which something goes too far.
v
(intransitive) To spend too much time or money shopping.
v
(transitive) to show excessively or too much
v
(intransitive) To shower (wash one's body in a shower) too much or too long.
v
(transitive, intransitive) To shrink excessively.
v
To have or be ascribed too much meaning or importance.
v
To sing with too much effort or embellishment.
v
(transitive) To skim excessively; to remove too much material from, by skimming.
v
(transitive) To soak for too long.
v
(intransitive) to socialize too much
v
(transitive) To soften too much; to make too soft.
v
To sow too much seed upon.
v
To specialize to an excessive degree.
v
To specify in excessive detail.
v
(finance) To spend too much money in speculation.
adj
That is travelling at an excessive speed
v
To state something in too much detail or too explicitly.
n
The amount by which someone or something is overspent.
v
(transitive) To add too much spice to (a dish).
v
To stabilize excessively
v
(transitive) To stack too high.
v
To exaggerate; to state or claim too much.
v
(transitive) To steep for too long.
v
(transitive) To stifle excessively.
v
(transitive) To stimulate to an excessive degree; to expose to excessive stimulation.
v
(transitive) To stir too much.
v
To stock to an excessive degree.
v
(transitive) To stoke excessively, creating too large a fire in a fireplace, furnace, firebox, etc.
v
(transitive, intransitive) To subject to an excessive demand on strength, resources, abilities, or the imagination.
v
To stratify excessively.
v
To place excessive emphasis on something.
adj
Subject to demands that are more than can be reasonably handled.
v
To strew or scatter over.
v
(transitive) To stuff to excess.
v
To subscribe to an extent that is greater than the availability.
v
(transitive) To subsidize too much.
v
To add up incorrectly, arriving at a total that is too large.
v
(obsolete) To eat (supper) excessively
v
To supinate to an excessive degree.
n
The act of supinating too much.
v
To supply more than is needed.
v
(intransitive) To swear excessively; to make too many oaths.
v
(transitive, intransitive) To cause (something) to be too swollen or large; to become too swollen or large.
v
To systematize to excess.
v
(transitive) To place too many tags on.
v
(transitive) To overstate; overexaggerate; talk up to seem greater than what is actual.
v
(transitive, intransitive) To tan to too great a degree.
v
(transitive) To task too heavily; to give someone or something too many tasks; to overburden.
v
To tax to an excessive degree.
v
(transitive, intransitive) To teach too much.
v
To exhaust or deplete by producing excessively.
v
(transitive) To exaggerate or be more explicit than needed; tell too much or too often, etc.
n
A temperature that is significantly higher than that encountered in normal operation
v
To tempt exceedingly, or beyond the power of resistance.
v
(transitive) To make too tense.
v
(transitive) To make too tense.
v
To subject to excessive testing
v
(intransitive) To theorize too much.
v
(transitive) To thicken to an excessive degree.
v
(transitive) To make too thin.
v
(transitive) To tighten too much.
v
(transitive, intransitive, agriculture) To till too much.
n
excessive tillage; the process of overtilling
v
(transitive) To measure something incorrectly, as taking more time than it actually did.
v
(transitive) To tint excessively.
v
(transitive, intransitive) To leave a tip that is too large.
v
(intransitive) To become excessively tired.
v
To give too high a title to.
v
(transitive) To give an overtone to.
v
(transitive) To place too many toppings on.
v
To produce excessive torque in an engine.
v
To trade beyond one's capital; to buy goods beyond the means of paying for or selling them; to overstock the market.
v
(transitive, intransitive) To train too much or too long.
v
To translate (language) in too much detail, or including the translation of things that should be left as they are.
v
(medicine, transitive) To subject to excessive medical treatment, often to such an extent as to cause adverse effects.
v
(transitive) To spend too much time or resources in trying (a legal case).
adj
(gaming) Of an enemy encounter or an attack, etc.: made unreasonably difficult by the game's designers.
v
(transitive) To urge excessively.
v
(transitive) To use too much of.
n
Alternative form of overutilization [Excessive utilization; overuse.]
v
Alternative form of overutilize [To utilize excessively]
v
To vaccinate too often, or too many members of a population.
v
To assign an excessive value to something.
v
To ventilate excessively
v
(transitive) To express (an opinion) too forcefully or too frequently.
n
The hazardous condition that occurs when the voltage in a circuit is raised above that for which it was designed.
v
(transitive) To wait for an excessive amount of time; wait beyond the time allowed or expected; wait too long.
v
(transitive) To wash too much or too often.
v
(transitive) To watch excessively.
v
(obsolete, intransitive) To wax or grow too rapidly or too much.
v
To make or render arrogant and overweening.
adj
(music) Of a musical instrument: provided with too much air or wind.
v
(transitive) To wipe too much.
v
(transitive, intransitive) To say in too many words; to express verbosely.
v
(transitive, intransitive) To write too much.
v
To buy items in unwarrantedly large quantities in a panicked response to coming shortages or price rises.
n
Doing more and more (of something), especially when it is inappropriate or problematic, such as by continuing to break a diet
n
(specifically, weaponry, historical) The excess of weight of that part of a cannon behind the trunnions over that in front of them.
adj
preponderating; exceeding in weight
v
To continue trying to convince a customer of the benefits of making a purchase after the customer has already decided to make that purchase; to oversell.
v
To commit oneself to too many projects, so that there is little chance of completing them all satisfactorily.
v
(intransitive, theology, Catholicism) To do more than God commands.
v
(transitive) To excite more than normal.
v
(transitive, sociology) To exploit (a worker) to a particularly severe degree.
n
An excessive price charged e.g. to an unsuspecting customer.
v
(transitive) To satisfy (someone's appetite) to excess (both literally and figuratively).
adj
(finance) Unstable, priced too high (of a currency, stock etc.).
n
Efforts taken or expended, typically beyond the normal required.
adj
Alternative form of underfired [(comparable, ceramics) Fired at a low (or excessively low) temperature.]
adj
(not comparable, cooking) Of a cooker: having a heat source that is underneath the food being cooked.
v
(intransitive) To grow to an inferior, or less than the usual, size or height.
v
(computing) To employ more switch ports than necessary so that high-priority traffic is sure to be handled right away.
v
To weigh insufficiently (indicating a too-small weight)
v
To overcharge (charge someone with an inflated number or degree of legal charges).
v
To persuade a customer to buy more items, or more expensive items, than they had intended.
v
(transitive, dated, finance) To overvalue (securities), especially through deceptive accounting.
adj
(US, dialect) Dried through overcooking.
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