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Meanings of become excessively in English

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Usage of become excessively in English
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Where skeletal overgrowth happens, the fingers may become excessively long or thickened.
Harvest Home
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As the investigation proceeded, Phelan found it expedient, to become excessively indignant.
Miss Mink's Soldier and Other Stories
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Similarly we do not want the ewes to become excessively fat for mating.
Independent.ie
4
The person whom I had first encountered suffered his face to become excessively amused.
The Mirror of Kong Ho
5
Under close confinement, the bees become excessively heated, and the combs are often melted down.
Langstroth on the Hive and the Honey-Bee: A Bee Keeper's Manual
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Gifted Hopkins had become excessively nervous by this time.
The Guardian Angel
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I have become excessively severe, exacting, irritable, ungracious, suspicious.
The Wife, and Other Stories
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None of this suggests fund managers have thrown caution to the wind and become excessively bullish.
The Irish Times
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That man has become excessively boring these days.
Tell me, pretty maiden
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This latter form seemed to please him best;-perhapsbecause it involved the least risk; for Dammit had become excessively parsimonious.
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 5
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The sun, too, had now become excessively hot, and the only coverings they had for their heads were straw hats.
The Three Admirals
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He reflected that his life, which until lately had been of a stagnant, contemplative quality, had suddenly become excessively active.
Scaramouche: A Romance of the French Revolution
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She also said Congress should change the tax code to reduce or eliminate incentives for financial firms to become excessively leveraged.
Reuters
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For example, it is not uncommon for children if they lose one parent to become excessively clingy towards the remaining parent.
The Irish Times
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But he found himself foiled in all his ambitious and factious designs, and he had become excessively unpopular in the army.
Life and Times of Washington, Volume 2 / Revised, Enlarged, and ...
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There may be marked inflammatory exudate, causing the surface of the skin to become excessively moist and more or less itching.
Common Diseases of Farm Animals
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