Meaning

1 senses
  1. (not comparable)More than is normal, necessary or specified.

More definitions
  • more than is needed, desired, or required

Examples

75 sentences
  1. He tends to do everything to excess.

  2. He drinks to excess.

    Він забагато п’є. — brambury

    ruОн слишком много пьёт. — Wadimiy

  3. She praised her husband to excess.

  4. How much per kilo for excess?

    ruСколько за каждый лишний килограмм? — odexed

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  5. In charity there is no excess.

Translations

3 languages

Origin

From Middle English exces (“excess, ecstasy”), from Old French exces, from Latin excessus

From Middle English exces (“excess, ecstasy”), from Old French exces, from Latin excessus (“a going out, loss of self-possession”), from excedere, excessum (“to go out, go beyond”). See exceed.

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