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Beyond normal, expected, or reasonable limits; outrageous.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: idiomatic
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: excessive, exaggerated, OTT, too much
Antonyms: none provided
Delivered across the Internet to a television or similar device.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: communication, communications
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Downward onto plants in the field, as contrasted with other routes of administration.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: agriculture, business, lifestyle
Examples
- over-the-top dicamba for dicamba-tolerant crops
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Egregiously; beyond compare.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Over the parapet of a trench, especially at the start of a futile attack.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: World-War-I, not-comparable
Examples
- The men were sent over the top to their certain death.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see over, the, top.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
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Antonyms: none provided
The adjectival form first appears c. 1935. See cite below. The adverbial form (in reference to World War I) first appears c. 1915.
Across languages
Translations
29 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Czech:
přehnaný
— beyond normal, expected, or reasonable limits; excessive; exaggerated
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Dutch:
overdreven
— beyond normal, expected, or reasonable limits; excessive; exaggerated
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Dutch:
te veel van het goede
— beyond normal, expected, or reasonable limits; excessive; exaggerated
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Finnish:
yliampuva
— beyond normal, expected, or reasonable limits; excessive; exaggerated
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Finnish:
liika
— beyond normal, expected, or reasonable limits; excessive; exaggerated
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German:
übertrieben
— beyond normal, expected, or reasonable limits; excessive; exaggerated
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German:
zuviel des Guten
— beyond normal, expected, or reasonable limits; excessive; exaggerated
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German:
des Guten zu viel
— beyond normal, expected, or reasonable limits; excessive; exaggerated
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German:
schon nicht mehr schön
— beyond normal, expected, or reasonable limits; excessive; exaggerated
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German:
etwas zu weit gehend
— beyond normal, expected, or reasonable limits; excessive; exaggerated
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Hungarian:
túlzás
— beyond normal, expected, or reasonable limits; excessive; exaggerated
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Macedonian:
претеран
(preteran)
— beyond normal, expected, or reasonable limits; excessive; exaggerated
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Portuguese:
acima do limite
— beyond normal, expected, or reasonable limits; excessive; exaggerated
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Portuguese:
excessivo
— beyond normal, expected, or reasonable limits; excessive; exaggerated
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Portuguese:
exagerado
— beyond normal, expected, or reasonable limits; excessive; exaggerated
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Romanian:
exagerat
— beyond normal, expected, or reasonable limits; excessive; exaggerated
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Romanian:
din cale-afară
— beyond normal, expected, or reasonable limits; excessive; exaggerated
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Spanish:
de manera subida de tono
— beyond normal, expected, or reasonable limits; excessive; exaggerated
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Spanish:
desmesuradamente
— beyond normal, expected, or reasonable limits; excessive; exaggerated
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Spanish:
exageradamente
— beyond normal, expected, or reasonable limits; excessive; exaggerated
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Spanish:
dramáticamente
— beyond normal, expected, or reasonable limits; excessive; exaggerated
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Spanish:
opadamente
— beyond normal, expected, or reasonable limits; excessive; exaggerated
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Swedish:
överdådig
— beyond normal, expected, or reasonable limits; excessive; exaggerated
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Swedish:
överdriven
— beyond normal, expected, or reasonable limits; excessive; exaggerated
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Thai:
เว่อร์
(wə̂ə)
— beyond normal, expected, or reasonable limits; excessive; exaggerated
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Turkish:
aşırı
— beyond normal, expected, or reasonable limits; excessive; exaggerated
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Turkish:
fazladan
— beyond normal, expected, or reasonable limits; excessive; exaggerated
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Turkish:
haddinden fazla
— beyond normal, expected, or reasonable limits; excessive; exaggerated
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Greek:
επιφυής
(epifyís)
— delivered across the Internet to a television or similar device
