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excess

/ˈɛksɛs/ verbe C2

En français : excessif

  1. To declare (an employee) surplus to requirements, such that he or she might not be given work. (US, transitive)

He/she/it excesses · Prétérit excessed · Participe passé excessed · Forme en -ing excessing

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Forme en -ing
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Dans la bibliothèque

“There is no occasion to move yet, my son,” she replied; “the man who only sends to his friends to help him with his harvest is not really in earnest.” The owner of the field came again a few days later and saw the wheat shedding the grain from excess of ripeness.
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables, p. 74 · B2
“Yes, but it may be pushed to excess.
A Study in Scarlet, p. 6 · B2
“What are you thinking of?” asked the abbé smilingly, imputing the deep abstraction in which his visitor was plunged to the excess of his awe and wonder.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 159 · C1
“Sir,” replied Caderousse, “they had made me drink to such an excess that I nearly lost all perception.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 303 · C1

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