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  • adjective Excessively excited.

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  • adjective Excessively excited
  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of overexcite.

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  • adjective unduly excited

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Examples

  • Now, wielding Occam's Razor, as we are so often required to do when the right side of the aisle gets overexcited, which is more likely: a deliberate deception, despite the fact that the audio recording of the hearing can be downloaded from the CHRC CHRT and has legal precedence over the transcript in case of any discrepancies?

    Earth to speech-warriors... 2008

  • Now, wielding Occam's Razor, as we are so often required to do when the right side of the aisle gets overexcited, which is more likely: a deliberate deception, despite the fact that the audio recording of the hearing can be downloaded from the CHRC CHRT and has legal precedence over the transcript in case of any discrepancies?

    Archive 2008-06-01 2008

  • I get kind of overexcited when people are talking about battle and I have a chance to adopt a werewolf identity.

    Archive 2004-08-01 2004

  • An overexcited wilderness explorer named Russell joins him.

    Up, up, and away pabba 2010

  • Taitz, who believes that the Federal Emergency Management Agency is building internment camps to house anti-Obama activists and that Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez controls the software that runs American voting machines, makes for undeniably good television: She looks like a young Carol Channing, sounds like an overexcited Zsa Zsa Gabor, and has the ability to make absurd accusations with a completely straight face.

    The Panic Virus Seth Mnookin 2011

  • "She was a little overexcited and playful in the first few days, so she may have overdone it," said Cracknell.

    Anne the elephant says goodbye to the circus 2011

  • My only complaint is when Dad gets overexcited in these conversations and talks several times too loud -- pretty embarrassing for a teenager.

    The 'Trip': So Far, So Good for Both of Us Stephen Kreider Yoder 2011

  • An overexcited wilderness explorer named Russell joins him.

    Up, up, and away pabba 2010

  • The NFL and the press got overexcited about black quarterbacks around a decade ago as the Quarterbacks of the Future.

    Matthew Yglesias » The Unpredictability of Quarterbacks 2009

  • I have never been one of those people who gets overexcited by award ceremonies.

    Fallin’ Up Steve Dennis 2011

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