Cloy

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  • intransitive verb. To cause distaste or disgust by supplying with too much of something originally pleasant, especially something rich or sweet; surfeit.
  • intransitive verb. To be too filling, rich, or sweet.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To stroke with a claw.
  • To pierce; gore.
  • In farriery, to prick (a horse) in shoeing.
  • To stop up; obstruct; clog.
  • To spike; drive a spike into the vent of: as, to cloy a gun.
  • To satiate; gratify to repletion or so as to cause loathing; surfeit; sate.
  • Synonyms Sate, etc. (see satisfy), pall, glut, gorge.
  • noun. An artificial mixture of plastic character, in this respect resembling clay.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To fill or choke up; to stop up; to clog.
  • transitive verb. To glut, or satisfy, as the appetite; to satiate; to fill to loathing; to surfeit.
  • transitive verb. To penetrate or pierce; to wound.
  • transitive verb. To spike, as a cannon.
  • transitive verb. To stroke with a claw.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To fill up or choke up; to stop up.
  • verb. To clog, to glut, or satisfy, as the appetite; to satiate.
  • verb. To fill to loathing; to surfeit.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. cause surfeit through excess though initially pleasing
  • verb. supply or feed to surfeit
  • Word Usage
    "Bad as was to me this detection by San Carlo, this-frost in July, this blow from a bride, there was still a worse, namely the cloy or satiety of the saints."
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    fill  furnish  provide  render  replete  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Elroy  Floy  Goy  Illinois  Joy  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    Dijon  Tate  abso  azeotrope  basinful  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    allay  block  block up  choke  cram  
    verb-form
    cloyed  cloying  cloys