superabundance, superfluity, superfluence†, saturation; nimiety†,
transcendency, exuberance, profuseness; profusion &c (plenty) 639;
repletion, enough in all conscience, satis superque [Lat.], lion's
share; more than enough &c 639; plethora, engorgement, congestion,
load, surfeit, sickener†; turgescence &c (expansion) 194 [Obs.];
overdose, overmeasure†, oversupply, overflow; inundation &c (water) 348;
avalanche.
accumulation &c (store) 636; heap &c 72; drug, drug in the market;
glut; crowd; burden.
excess; surplus, overplus†; epact†; margin; remainder &c 40;
duplicate; surplusage†, expletive; work of supererogation; bonus,
bonanza.
luxury; intemperance &c 954; extravagance &c (prodigality) 818;
exorbitance, lavishment†.
pleonasm &c (diffuseness) 573; too many irons in the fire;
embarras de richesses [Fr.].
V. superabound, overabound†; know no bounds, swarm; meet one at every
turn; creep with, crawl with, bristle with; overflow; run over, flow
over, well over, brim over; run riot; overrun, overstock, overlay,
overcharge, overdose, overfeed, overburden, overload, overdo,
overwhelm, overshoot the mark &c (go beyond) 303; surcharge,
supersaturate, gorge, glut, load, drench, whelm, inundate, deluge,
flood; drug, drug the market; hepatize†.
choke, cloy, accloy†, suffocate; pile up, lay on thick; impregnate
with; lavish &c (squander) 818.
send coals to Newcastle, carry coals to Newcastle, carry owls to
Athens†; teach one's grandmother to suck eggs; pisces natare docere
[Lat.]; kill the slain, gild refined gold, gild the lily, butter one's
bread on both sides, put butter upon bacon; employ a steam engine to
crack a nut &c (waste) 638.
exaggerate &c 549; wallow in roll in &c (plenty) 639; remain on
one's hands, hang heavy on hand, go a begging.
Adj. redundant; too much, too many; exuberant, inordinate,
superabundant, excessive, overmuch, replete, profuse, lavish; prodigal
&c 818; exorbitant; overweening; extravagant; overcharged &c v.;
supersaturated, drenched, overflowing; running over, running to waste,
running down.
crammed to overflowing, filled to overflowing; gorged, ready to
burst; dropsical, turgid, plethoric; obese &c 194.
superfluous, unnecessary, needless, supervacaneous†, uncalled for,
to spare, in excess; over and above &c (remainder) 40; de trop [Fr.];
adscititious &c (additional) 37; supernumerary &c (reserve) 636; on
one's hands, spare, duplicate, supererogatory, expletive; un peu fort
[Fr.].
Adv. over, too, over and above; overmuch, too much; too far; without
measure, beyond measure, out of measure; with a to spare; over head and
ears; up to one's eyes, up to one's ears; extra; beyond the mark &c
(transcursion) 303; acervatim [Lat.].
Phr. it never rains but it pours; fortuna multis dat nimium nulli satis
[Lat.].