Crossword clues for overabundance
Wiktionary
n. An excess of that which is needed or is appropriate
WordNet
a quantity that is more than what is appropriate; "four-year-olds have an overabundance of energy"; "we received an inundation of email" [syn: overmuch, overmuchness, superabundance]
Wikipedia
Overabundance may refer to:
- Overpopulation in demographics
- Overproduction in economics
Usage examples of "overabundance".
For the first time in the history of an emergency call-up, there would be an overabundance of trained enlisted and commissioned personnel.
Rarely do you have a first lieutenant as a grunt platoon leader but with the overabundance of first lieutenants, and being junior, he was stuck.
And the platoon leader, despite the overabundance of first lieutenants, was a recent graduate of the Pennsylvania Army National Guard Officers Training School and would soon, almost certainly, require a razor.
Of course, they had always been observed with some regularity, but that could usually be ascribed to an overabundance of piety or wine or imagination.
Journey that the disease of colonial territories is a sign not really of death, but of an overabundance of life.
Heart of darkness the deathly pallor of Brussels that Marlow finds on his return from the Belgian Congo, but with respect to the monstrous, unbounded overabundance of life in the colony, the sterile environment of Europe seems comforting.
She possessed an overabundance of energy and it took a lot to wear her out.
He stopped, staring around him at the rampant overabundance of nature that had somehow flourished here, in the heart of a deserted starship countless light-years from Earth.
Even though he had given her the job at the Farrington, she must remember that he possessed an overabundance of lusty, insatiable appetites for women and other vices as well.
A spider lurching in her direction with a less than full complement of limbs, which was more than made up for by her overabundance of spleen.
Most had not been touched by animals or birds, there being an overabundance for scavengers.
All bore an overabundance of shining metal resembling chromium which was arranged into various shapes like jet tubes, stubby wings or even ancient exhaust pipes.
Their uniforms, however, were bright blue and might have been smart save for an overabundance of scarlet piping.
Lomax was thirty-two, madly in love with himself, and afflicted with an overabundance of confidence in his own talents.
Oriental appearance, greeted him with a stagy overabundance of warmth and led them at once to what must have been a choice table, high up in the middle dome with a terrific view of the water.