| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | An amount or quantity beyond what is needed, desired, or appropriate: excess, fat, glut, overage, overflow, overmuch, overstock, oversupply, superfluity, surplus, surplusage. See EXCESS. | | VERB: | 1. To go beyond the limits of: exceed, overreach, overstep, surpass, transcend. See EXCESS. 2. To enter so as to attack, plunder, destroy, or conquer: foray, invade, raid. See ATTACK, ENTER.
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