Surfeit

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To feed or supply to excess, satiety, or disgust.
  • verb-intransitive. Archaic To overindulge.
  • n. Overindulgence in food or drink.
  • n. The result of such overindulgence; satiety or disgust.
  • n. An excessive amount.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. An excessive amount of something.
  • n. Overindulgence in either food or drink; overeating.
  • n. A sickness or condition caused by overindulgence.
  • v. To fill to excess.
  • v. To feed someone to excess.
  • v. To overeat or feed to excess.
  • v. To sicken from overindulgence.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. Excess in eating and drinking.
  • n. Fullness and oppression of the system, occasioned often by excessive eating and drinking.
  • n. Disgust caused by excess; satiety.
  • verb-intransitive. To load the stomach with food, so that sickness or uneasiness ensues; to eat to excess.
  • verb-intransitive. To indulge to satiety in any gratification.
  • v. To feed so as to oppress the stomach and derange the function of the system; to overfeed, and produce satiety, sickness, or uneasiness; -- often reflexive.
  • v. To fill to satiety and disgust; to cloy.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Excess; specifically (and now usually), excess in eating and drinking; a gluttonous meal by which the stomach is overloaded and the digestion deranged.
  • n. Fullness and oppression of the system, occasioned by excessive eating and drinking.
  • n. Disgust caused by excess; satiety; nausea.
  • n. Synonyms Repletion, plethora. See the verb.
  • To feed so as to oppress the stomach and derange the digestive functions; overfeed so as to produce sickness or uneasiness; overload the stomach of.
  • To fill to satiety and disgust; cloy; nauseate: as, to surfeit one with eulogies.
  • Synonyms Satiate, etc. (see satisfy); glut, gorge.
  • To be fed till the system is oppressed, and sickness or uneasiness ensues.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the state of being more than full
  • n. the quality of being so overabundant that prices fall
  • n. eating until excessively full
  • v. indulge (one's appetite) to satiety
  • v. supply or feed to surfeit
  • Antonym
    hunger    thirst   
    Verb Form
    surfeited    surfeiting    surfeits   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    fullness    overmuch    overabundance    superabundance    overmuchness    feeding    eating    indulge    luxuriate    furnish   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    satiety    cloy    feed    overfeed    sate    satiate    stuff    cramp    overcram    overcloy   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts