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Overmuch

adverb

More than necessary. Synonym: too much. "Let's not blame them overmuch"

adjective

Very great in quantity; overabundant.

noun

A quantity that is more than what is appropriate. Synonyms: overabundance, overmuchness, superabundance. "We received an inundation of email"

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... serious cases were treated, men who could be got upstairs without too much strain and suffering. On the ground floor one bed was free, as I knew, and it was into that ward I went to tell the news to the matron. Perhaps when my duty was done I did not hurry overmuch to return to my own less interesting post; and I was still in the principal ward when the canvas litter borne by four Red Cross men was carried in. Doctors and nurses pressed forward to meet it, and I flattened myself against the wall, sick ...

— Secret History Revealed By Lady Peggy O'Malley • C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson

... news,—greets Friedrich with it just alighting from that Silesian run of his own. Friedrich, not without several other things to think of, is naturally sorry at such news; sorry for his own sake even; but not overmuch. Friedrich refuses 'to despatch a party of horse,' and cut out Marechal de Belleisle. "That will never do, MON CHER!'—and even gets into FROIDES PLAISANTERIES: 'Perhaps the Marechal did it himself? Tallard, prisoner after Blenheim, made PEACE, you know, in England?'—and the like; which grieved ...

— History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. XV. (of XXI.) • Thomas Carlyle

... hurry the thing overmuch. If I recuperate too sudden and show up back home it might look funny, after the way I bellowed about my condition. There's plenty of flour, bacon, and canned stuff in that van. I reckon we'd better get our feet well settled here ...

— When Egypt Went Broke • Holman Day

... me honor overmuch; yet there is a beauty in willingness even where one cannot meet expectation. Of ...

— The Prince of India - Or - Why Constantinople Fell - Volume 1 • Lew. Wallace

... Austrian desire to avenge herself on Servia is a part of her secular animosity towards Slavdom and its protector, Russia. Nor yet, when we are considering the present debacle of civilisation, need we interest ourselves overmuch in the immediate occasions and circumstances of the huge quarrel. We want to know not how Europe flared into war, but why. Our object is so to understand the present imbroglio as to prevent, if we can, the possibility for the future of any similar ...

— Armageddon--And After • W. L. Courtney

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