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overcloy

overcloy verb: to fill beyond satiety.

Verb

overcloy (third-person singular simple present overcloys, present participle overcloying, simple past and past participle overcloyed)

  1. (dated, transitive) To fill beyond satiety.
    • A sort of vagabonds, rascals, and runaways, / A scum of Bretons, and base lackey peasants, / Whom their o'er-cloyed country vomits forth / To desperate ventures and assured destruction.c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...
    • He neuer pleaſd his fathers eyes till now, / Nor fild my hart with ouer cloying ioyes.c. 1587 (date written), [Thomas Kyd], The Spanish Tragedie: […] (Fourth Quarto), London: […] W[illiam] W[hite] for T[homas] Pauier, […], published 1602, →OCLC, Act I

Forms of overcloy

third-person singular presentovercloys
present participleovercloying
past participleovercloyed
pastovercloyed

Origin of overcloy

From over- + cloy.

Questions about overcloy

What does overcloy mean?
Overcloy means to fill beyond satiety.
What part of speech is overcloy?
Overcloy is a verb.
What is the past tense of overcloy?
The past tense of overcloy is overcloyed.

Words near overcloy in the dictionary

  1. overcloths
  2. overcloud
  3. overclouded
  4. overclouding
  5. overclouds
  6. overcloy
  7. overcloyed
  8. overcloying
  9. overcloys
  10. overclub
  11. overclubbed

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