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Oversupply

To supply in excess.

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Broader term 8

Furnish 76% connected

To supply with anything necessary, useful, or appropriate; to provide; to equip; to fit out, or fit up; to adorn; as, to furnish a family with provis…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a broader lexical category for at least one sense.

Offer 76% connected

To present, as an act of worship; to immolate; to sacrifice; to present in prayer or devotion; -- often with up.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Overmuch 76% connected

Too much.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Overmuchness 76% connected

The quality or state of being in excess; superabundance.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Provide 76% connected

To look out for in advance; to procure beforehand; to get, collect, or make ready for future use; to prepare.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Render 76% connected

One who rends.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Superabundance 76% connected

The quality or state of being superabundant; a superabundant quantity; redundancy; excess.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Supply 76% connected

To fill up, or keep full; to furnish with what is wanted; to afford, or furnish with, a sufficiency; as, rivers are supplied by smaller streams; an a…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Glut 74% connected

To swallow, or to swallow greedlly; to gorge.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Glut 74% connected

To swallow, or to swallow greedlly; to gorge.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Synonym 3

Flood 92% connected

A great flow of water; a body of moving water; the flowing stream, as of a river; especially, a body of water, rising, swelling, and overflowing land…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Glut 92% connected

To swallow, or to swallow greedlly; to gorge.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Surfeit 92% connected

Excess in eating and drinking.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

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