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"word": "tuhene"
}
],
"word": "overmuch"
}
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"categories": [
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms derived from Middle English",
"English terms inherited from Middle English",
"English uncountable nouns"
],
"etymology_number": 3,
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"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "enm",
"3": "overmuche"
},
"expansion": "Middle English overmuche",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "overmuchel"
},
"expansion": "overmuchel",
"name": "m"
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],
"etymology_text": "From Middle English overmuche, overmuchel, from the adjective.",
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"args": {
"1": "-"
},
"expansion": "overmuch (uncountable)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1922, Knut Hamsun, translated by W. Worster, Wanders, London: Gyldendal, page 190",
"text": "They had felled too freely here; the sawmills had taken over-much, leaving next to no young wood.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1947, Pindar, “Pythia 1”, in Richmond Lattimore, transl., Odes, University of Chicago Press, page 46",
"text": "If citizens hear overmuch of the bliss of others, it galls the secrecy of their hearts.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"An excessive amount; too much."
],
"links": [
[
"excessive",
"excessive"
],
[
"amount",
"amount"
],
[
"too much",
"too much"
]
],
"tags": [
"uncountable"
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}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "over much"
}
],
"word": "overmuch"
}
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