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cloy

verb

1 cloy

Supply or feed to surfeit.

synonym: surfeit.

Roget 641: 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; ... show more

Roget 869: sate, satiate, satisfy, saturate; cloy, quench, slake, pall, glut.   , gorge, surfeit; bore etc. (weary) ... show more

2 cloy

Cause surfeit through excess though initially pleasing:
— Too much spicy food cloyed his appetite.

synonym: pall.


Moby thesaurus: allay, cram, engorge, fill, fill up, glut, gorge, jade, overdose, overfeed, overfill, overgorge, oversaturate, overstuff, pall, sate, satiate, satisfy, saturate, slake ... show more.

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