overly

[US]/'əʊvəlɪ/
[UK]/'ovɚli/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

adv. excessively

Phrases & Collocations

overly sensitive

overly critical

overly ambitious

overly cautious

Example Sentences

Parker was not overly regardful of public opinion.

The granite overlies the older rocks.

she was a jealous and overly possessive woman.

Such overly sensitive people must be handled with kid gloves.

The host rock conformably overlies a band of siliceous chertybrecia.

He is overly worried about his health;his doctor said he is very healthy.

The politician was able to take the pulse of the grassroots voters without becoming overly absorbed.

He was acting out his feelings of inferiority by being overly aggressive.

Trying to return a sidespin serve will be a hair-pulling experience for a beginner if he/she uses an overly spinny rubber.

This enabled visualization of any change in the ciliary body, when the pupil was constricted by carbachol, or when the scleral overlying the ciliary body was indented.

So the similar simulation method is used in research on the instability mechanism and displacement rules of overlying magmata strata at the process of deep coal seam exploitation.

Stress shell, which bears and pass load of overlying strata, is primary supporting body.The stress in skewback of stress shell forms abutment pressure of surrounding rock in vicinity of working face.

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