Cloy

[klɒɪ]

Definition

(verb.) cause surfeit through excess though initially pleasing; 'Too much spicy food cloyed his appetite'.

Inputed by Elizabeth--From WordNet

Definition

(v. t.) To fill or choke up; to stop up; to clog.

(v. t.) To glut, or satisfy, as the appetite; to satiate; to fill to loathing; to surfeit.

(v. t.) To penetrate or pierce; to wound.

(v. t.) To spike, as a cannon.

(v. t.) To stroke with a claw.

Checker: Patty

Synonyms and Synonymous

v. a. Satiate, glut, surfeit, pall, sate.

Checker: Uriah

Definition

v.t. (Shak.) to stroke with a claw.

v.t. to fill to loathing: to satiate: (Spens.) to gore:—pr.p. cloy′ing; pa.p. cloyed.—adjs. Cloyed clagged: cumbered; Cloy′ing satiating; Cloy′less (Shak.) that cannot cloy.—n. Cloy′ment (Shak.) satiety surfeit.—adj. Cloy′some satiating.

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