cloys

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.

   Synonyms:

   block, block up, choke, fill, fill up, stop up, stuff, stuff up

2. (transitive) To clog, to glut, or satisfy, as the appetite; to satiate.

   Synonyms:

   fill up, glut, gorge, sate, satiate, satisfy, stodge, stuff, stuff up

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

   Synonyms:

   jade, nauseate, pall, sicken, surfeit

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