Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Excessively numerous; too many.
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- adjective Of or pertaining to being too
numerous .
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Examples
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If monkeys, crows, or other bold marauders are overnumerous, he probably has to sit out in the rude watch-house in the little clearing and keep the scarecrows moving, or by shouts and other means drive off the uninvited pests.
The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir John M. Garvan
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They were overnumerous as I maundered up from where at last the road leaves the valley and makes over a little pass for a place called Schangnau.
The Path to Rome Hilaire Belloc 1911
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