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cloyed

/klɔɪd/

cloyed is the simple past and past participle of cloy.

Meaning of cloy

Verb

cloy (third-person singular simple present cloys, present participle cloying, simple past and past participle cloyed)

  1. (transitive) To fill up or choke up; to stop up.
  2. (transitive) To clog, to glut, or satisfy, as the appetite; to satiate.
  3. (transitive) To fill to loathing; to surfeit.
    • Now all this was very fine, but not at all in keeping with the Celebrity's character as I had come to conceive it. The idea that adulation ever cloyed on him was ludicrous in itself. In fact I thought the whole story fishy, and came very near to saying so.1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter III, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC

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Adjective

cloyed (not comparable)

  1. blocked up

Words formed from cloyed

Words that rhyme with cloyed

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Questions about cloyed

What does cloyed mean?
Cloyed means blocked up.
What is cloyed the simple past and past participle of?
Cloyed is the simple past and past participle of cloy.
What part of speech is cloyed?
Cloyed is an adjective.
How do you pronounce cloyed?
Cloyed is pronounced /klɔɪd/.

Words near cloyed in the dictionary

  1. cloxypendyl
  2. cloy
  3. Cloyd
  4. Cloyds
  5. cloye
  6. cloyed
  7. cloyedness
  8. cloyer
  9. cloyers
  10. cloyes
  11. cloyest

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