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  • verb Present participle of overexcite.

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Examples

  • For a main I have veal, which is well cooked and tender without being overexciting.

    Restaurant: The Mulberry Tree, Boughton Monchelsea, Kent 2010

  • Seeing Metropolis was a teensy overexciting, and so was seeing that silver metal superwoman, even if the plot destroyed her at the end.

    Silver Zombie Carole Nelson Douglas 2010

  • 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.

    His Family Ernest Poole 1915

  • What is the danger from overexciting the emotions without giving them a proper outlet in some practical activity?

    The Mind and Its Education George Herbert Betts 1901

  • Griffith and the other staff at the center teach the mothers in the program how to engage their babies without overexciting them.

    Chicago Reader 2010

  • "Given the abuse directed at the news media on hand at a recent Palin rally in Florida, including the black network sound man told to 'sit down, boy' (among the more printable names), the Alaska governor may want to think twice about overexciting the old base of George Wallace's 1968 run for president -- though it is not clear that she has his political self-awareness."

    Political Cortex 2008

  • Two types of cells that act as part of the brain’s immune-system response to help heal brain injury and infection may also cause chronic epileptic seizures by overexciting nearby neurons, according to a study in Brain.

    For Women With Migraines There May Be a Silver Lining 2009

  • In this letter, she cautioned Governor Palin about "overexciting the old base of George Wallace's 1968 run for President ...

    Rep. John Lewis Compares McCain To George Wallace 2009

  • "You can look at it, and statistically speaking it wasn't overexciting if you want to call it that.

    StarTribune.com rss feed 2009

  • "You can look at it, and statistically speaking it wasn't overexciting if you want to call it that.

    StarTribune.com rss feed 2009

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