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What is the verb for excessive?

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exceed
  1. (transitive) To be larger, greater than (something).
  2. (transitive) To be better than (something).
  3. (transitive) To go beyond (some limit); to surpass, outstrip or transcend.
  4. (intransitive) To predominate.
  5. (intransitive, obsolete) To go too far; to be excessive.
  6. Synonyms:
  7. Examples:
    1. “You need to ensure that your brand is well represented in terms of how you take responsibility and exceed all expectations.”
      “How much should you exceed his measure in the devotion of your money and means, and how much should you exceed him in the spirit of willing obedience?”
      “The total population of seabirds, waterfowl, and shorebirds may exceed a million birds.”
excess
  1. (US, transitive) To declare (an employee) surplus to requirements, such that he or she might not be given work.
exceeding
excede
  1. Dated form of exceed.
  2. Examples:
    1. “If these vibrations excede a certain level massive buildings are incapable of dampening them.”
      “Usually a short-term loan cannot excede the the amount of one regular monthly installment.”
excedes
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of excede
exceeds
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of exceed
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Moreover, the range of these scores almost always exceeds that of the pianist's hand.”
      “The cost of housing will fall in real terms if the CPI exceeds the rate of house price inflation.”
      “When the rate of absorption exceeds the rate of elimination, toxins accumulate in the body.”
exceedeth
  1. (archaic) third-person singular simple present indicative form of exceed
exceedest
  1. (archaic) second-person singular simple present form of exceed
exceded
  1. simple past tense and past participle of excede
  2. Examples:
    1. “At about 15 cruzados per ounce, the annual deliveries of musk during the period exceded 200,000 cruzados' worth.”
exceeded
  1. simple past tense and past participle of exceed
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The non-party councillor got 1790 votes and was elected on the first count having exceeded the quota by 690 votes.”
      “His line was the jocundly-sentimental Wardour Street brand of adventure, told in a style that exactly met, but never exceeded, every expectation.”
      “The chemicals that most often exceeded limits were naphthalene, formaldehyde and acetaldehyde.”
excessed
  1. simple past tense and past participle of excess
  2. Examples:
    1. “Workers with decades of seniority are being excessed, required to take physically demanding jobs or forced into early retirement.”
exceding
  1. present participle of excede
  2. Examples:
    1. “And one of the things that was to be sene in those fayres, was the earthen vessell, which was exceding curious and fine.”
excessing
  1. present participle of excess
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