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  • 111over the top — the lavish dessert buffet after that meal was simply over the top Syn: excessive, immoderate, inordinate, extreme, exaggerated, extravagant, overblown, too much, unreasonable, hyperbolic, disproportionate, undue, unwarranted, uncalled for,… …

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  • 112over·board — /ˈoʊvɚˌboɚd/ adv : over the side of a ship into the water He threw/tossed the fish overboard. The boy fell overboard and almost drowned. One of the sailors fell into the water, and someone shouted “Man overboard!” sometimes used figuratively The… …

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  • 113over-compensation — a cycling or maturation technique that involves adding much more pollution to an aquarium than fish will create when the tank is fully stocked. This allows stocking with many fish at once …

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  • 114over-canvassed — adjective of or pertaining to a sailing boat (dinghy, a yacht or a sailing ship) that is carrying too much sail for the current wind conditions …

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  • 115over- — prefix 1 too much: overpopulation | overcooked cabbage 2 above; beyond; across: overhanging branches | the overland route (=not by sea or air) 3 outer; covering: an overcoat 4 additional: working overtime (=beyond the usual time) …

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  • 116over-exposure — noun (U) the state of having received too much light, sun light, radiation etc, that is harmful to someone s skin, a photographic film etc …

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  • 117over-refine — verb refine too much or with excess of subtlety He is overrefining this matter • Syn: ↑overrefine • Derivationally related forms: ↑overrefinement (for: ↑overrefine) • Hypernyms: ↑ …

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  • 118over·con·fi·dent — /ˌoʊvɚˈkɑːnfədənt/ adj : having too much confidence about something He was overconfident about passing the test and didn t study for it …

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  • 119over·heat·ed — /ˌoʊvɚˈhiːtəd/ adj 1 : too hot She worked in a stuffy, overheated office. 2 : too excited or emotional an overheated imagination/argument The discussion was getting overheated. 3 of a market or economy : hav …

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  • 120over·matched — /ˌoʊvɚˈmæʧt/ adj : fighting or competing against a much stronger opponent The boxer was badly overmatched. They wiped out the overmatched rebel army …

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