Definitions for excess

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excess ex·cess

Spelling: [noun ik-ses, ek-ses; adjective, verb

IPA: /noun ɪkˈsɛs, ˈɛk sɛs; adjective, verb ˈɛk sɛs, ɪkˈsɛs/

Excess is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 37 anagrams from letters in excess (ceessx).

Definitions for excess

noun

1. the fact of exceeding something else in amount or degree:
2. the amount or degree by which one thing exceeds another:
3. an extreme or excessive amount or degree; superabundance:
4. a going beyond what is regarded as customary or proper:
5. immoderate indulgence; intemperance in eating, drinking, etc.

adjective

1. more than or above what is necessary, usual, or specified; extra:

verb (used with object)

1. to dismiss, demote, transfer, or furlough (an employee), especially as part of a mass layoff.

Origin of excess

1350-1400; Middle English (noun and adj.) Latin excessus departure, digression, equivalent to exced-, variant stem of excēdere to exceed + -tus suffix of v. action

Examples for excess

And some specialize in treating women, who have different risk factors for excess drinking.

That they would use the drug to excess there can be no doubt, and that is the main point.

We are to be cured by an excess of the dose that has poisoned us.

It is the deficiency, and not the excess of this quality, that is to be feared.

By the way, killjoys, American charitable giving goes up by 42 percent during this season of crass materialistic greed and excess.

“Most women are not drinking to excess because they feel ‘powerful’ in the first place,” she says.

Shake off any excess flour and gently place in the heated oil.

Chip jerked open the door with a force greatly in excess of the need of it.

It arose, I imagine, from an excess of the masculine element in his nature.

The Senate Intelligence Committee report says they secured a contract with the CIA in 2006 valued “in excess of $180 million.”