orgynoun [ C ]
uk/ˈɔː.dʒi/us/ˈɔːr.dʒi/an occasion when a group of people behave in a wild uncontrolled way, especially involving sex, alcohol, or illegal drugs:
drunken orgies
an orgy of sth disapproving
a period when there is too much of something, usually a bad or harmful activity:
The protest degenerated into an orgy of looting and shooting.
When she got paid, she indulged in an orgy of spending.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Too much and unnecessary
- a sledgehammer to crack a nut idiom
- avalanche
- be up to your neck (in sth) idiom
- bellyful
- binge
- carry/take coals to Newcastle idiom
- hyper
- immoderate
- inessential
- insatiable
- lousy
- plenty
- plethora
- proliferate
- redundancy
- redundant
- sock
- supplementary
- surplus
- weigh
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