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- adjective Excessively
excitable
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Examples
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Having extracted maximum value from the "bottomless glass of fizzy pop" offer during my pre-match meal in a well known Portuguese chicken emporium, it's probably fair to say that I too am in an overexcitable mood.33 min: Antonini beats Walcott easily - too easily - and tries a shot that cannons off an Arsenal defender and sends the ball looping out towards the touchline.
AC Milan 4-0 Arsenal – as it happened | Barry Glendenning 2012
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Although individuals with an unrecognized genetic predisposition to autoimmunity or who have an autoimmune disease may be more in need of protection against flu pandemics and infectious-disease outbreaks than others with less overexcitable immune systems, vaccines may in and of themselves prove to be dangerous for them.
The Autoimmune Epidemic Donna Jackson Nakazawa 2008
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Although individuals with an unrecognized genetic predisposition to autoimmunity or who have an autoimmune disease may be more in need of protection against flu pandemics and infectious-disease outbreaks than others with less overexcitable immune systems, vaccines may in and of themselves prove to be dangerous for them.
The Autoimmune Epidemic Donna Jackson Nakazawa 2008
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Her words began to skid out, lightning-fast, overexcitable.
Tell us we’re home Martina Budhos 2010
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Her words began to skid out, lightning-fast, overexcitable.
Tell us we’re home Martina Budhos 2010
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The bad things people say about dogs is that they're dirty, smelly, overexcitable, undiscriminating, and potentially violent and dangerous no toddler ever got savaged to death by a cat.
Archive 2009-07-01 juliette 2009
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The bad things people say about dogs is that they're dirty, smelly, overexcitable, undiscriminating, and potentially violent and dangerous no toddler ever got savaged to death by a cat.
The Truth About Cats And Dogs juliette 2009
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At age 2, none of the overexcitable infants wound up fearful if their parents backed off from hovering and allowed the children to find some comfortable level of accommodation to the world on their own.
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Their nervous systems are innately programmed to be overexcitable in response to stimulation, constantly sending out false alarms about what is dangerous.
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I was referring to the overexcitable WBinsider1984 guy, oh sensitive one.
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