Cloy

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To cause distaste or disgust by supplying with too much of something originally pleasant, especially something rich or sweet; surfeit.
  • verb-intransitive. To be too filling, rich, or sweet.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To fill up or choke up; to stop up.
  • v. To clog, to glut, or satisfy, as the appetite; to satiate.
  • v. To fill to loathing; to surfeit.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To fill or choke up; to stop up; to clog.
  • v. To glut, or satisfy, as the appetite; to satiate; to fill to loathing; to surfeit.
  • v. To penetrate or pierce; to wound.
  • v. To spike, as a cannon.
  • v. To stroke with a claw.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • 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.
  • To stroke with a claw.
  • n. An artificial mixture of plastic character, in this respect resembling clay.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. cause surfeit through excess though initially pleasing
  • v. supply or feed to surfeit
  • Verb Form
    cloyed    cloying    cloys   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    satiate    replete    sate    fill    furnish    provide    supply    render   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    satiate    surfeit    wound    fill up    stuff up    stuff    choke    block up    fill    stop up   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Elroy    Floy    Goy    Illinois    Joy    Oi    Roy    Savoy    Troy    ahoy   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    inny    abso    soft-toned    broil    basinful    Tate    tenpenny    azeotrope    cake    summer