Surfeit

['sɜːfɪt] or ['sɝfɪt]

Definition

(noun.) the state of being more than full.

(verb.) indulge (one's appetite) to satiety.

(verb.) supply or feed to surfeit.

Checked by Carlton--From WordNet

Definition

(n.) Excess in eating and drinking.

(n.) Fullness and oppression of the system, occasioned often by excessive eating and drinking.

(n.) Disgust caused by excess; satiety.

(v. i.) To load the stomach with food, so that sickness or uneasiness ensues; to eat to excess.

(v. i.) To indulge to satiety in any gratification.

(v. t.) To feed so as to oppress the stomach and derange the function of the system; to overfeed, and produce satiety, sickness, or uneasiness; -- often reflexive; as, to surfeit one's self with sweets.

(v. t.) To fill to satiety and disgust; to cloy; as, he surfeits us with compliments.

Checker: Mandy

Synonyms and Synonymous

v. a. Satiate, glut, gorge, sate, cloy, pall, overfeed.

v. n. Be surfeited, feed to satiety.

n. Repletion, glut, fulness, satiety, plethora, excess, superabundance, redundance, superfluity.

Editor: Robert

Synonyms and Antonyms

SYN:Superabundance, excess, glut, nimiety, plethora

ANT:Scantiness, stint, defect, starvation, inanition, insufficiency

Checked by Elisha

Definition

v.t. to fill to satiety and disgust.—n. excess in eating and drinking: sickness or satiety caused by overfullness.—ns. Sur′feiter (Shak.) one who surfeits a glutton; Sur′feiting eating overmuch: gluttony.

Typist: Marcus