Definitions
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- adjective present in excess.
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- adjective
excessively abundant .
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- adjective excessively abundant
Etymologies
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Examples
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I worked like never before in my garden, cutting back my overabundant vines and unsculpted shrubs, redefining beds and edges, and mulching to the max.
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I worked like never before in my garden, cutting back my overabundant vines and unsculpted shrubs, redefining beds and edges, and mulching to the max.
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It seems like a waste of space to list the overabundant $75, $125 and $199 "deals," so it's lucky there are a few plucky places offering something a little different this Valentine's Day.
Not your usual Valentine's deals Justin Rude 2011
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The ability to manage overabundant information; and
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Historically, civilizations have been observed to decline in accordance with an overabundant growth in population that the environment cannot support.
G. Roger Denson: Homosexuality as Population Control? Nature's Restraint on Procreative Extravagance G. Roger Denson 2010
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And although such overabundant light is problematic in our age of energy consciousness, a substantial discussion concerning the use of less public and private illumination has taken second place to the more prominent campaign urging us to replace our incandescent suns with other, colder fluorescent suns, even though the adoption of compact fluorescent light is only trading one commodity for another.
Jane Brox: Light! Less Light! The Evolution Of Artificial Light Jane Brox 2010
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A little black-and-white sign nearly covered by green leaves from some overabundant bushes.
The Redleys Matt Haig 2010
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The ability to manage overabundant information; and
December 2008 2008
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Historically, civilizations have been observed to decline in accordance with an overabundant growth in population that the environment cannot support.
G. Roger Denson: Homosexuality as Population Control? Nature's Restraint on Procreative Extravagance G. Roger Denson 2010
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Apparently, as underrepresented as female students were on the school's roof, they're overabundant in the hives themselves, where, according to principal Durnford — whose time seems to have been well-spent at beekeeping classes — males have little function besides mating with the queen.
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