surfeit in English

noun

1

an excessive amount of something.

a surfeit of food and drink

synonyms: excess, surplus, abundance, oversupply, superabundance, superfluity, glut, avalanche, deluge, overdose, bellyful, gutful, buttload

verb

1

cause (someone) to desire no more of something as a result of having consumed or done it to excess.

I am surfeited with shopping

synonyms: satiate, sate, gorge, overfeed, overfill, glut, cram, stuff, overindulge, fill, saturate

noun

excess, surplus, abundance, oversupply, superabundance, superfluity, glut, avalanche, deluge, overdose, bellyful, gutful, buttload
repletion
oversupply, glut
excess, overabundance

verb

satiate, cloy
satiate, sate, gorge, overfeed, overfill, glut, cram, stuff, overindulge, fill, saturate
cloy

Use "surfeit" in a sentence

1. 7 Armand dozing, apparently, in a surfeit of plenty.

2. 3 The country has a surfeit of cheap labour.

3. 11 He's already had a surfeit of wives.

4. 17 A surfeit of food makes one sick.

5. 10 This was about surfeit of the senses.

6. 1 A surfeit of rich food is bad for you.

7. 2 It's no good for your health to surfeit yourself.

8. 16 Thus do I pine surfeit day by day.

9. 19 Know, then, that for you is neither surfeit nor content.

10. 8 The world has a surfeit of mediocre drummers.

11. 9 There is a surfeit of managers in the company.

12. 4 Indigestion can be brought on by a surfeit of rich food.

13. 21 The voters are pretty sick of such a surfeit of primary sloganeering.

14. Cloy: 1 v supply or feed to surfeit Synonyms: surfeit Type of: furnish , provide , render , supply give something useful or necessary to v cause surfeit through excess though initially pleasing “Too much spicy food Cloyed his appetite” Synonyms: pall Type of: fill , replete , sate , satiate fill to satisfaction

15. Synonyms for Bellyful include excess, surfeit, superabundance, enough, fat, overabundance, overage, overflow, overkill and overmuch

16. 22 Independent surfeit by an auto rhizoid inspector can be arranged at buyer's account.

17. 6 There has been a surfeit of plays about divorce on the television recently.

18. 15 A surfeit of rock dust blocked their vision and irritated their throats.

19. 14 Boardsailors could find a surfeit of interest for them in hall two.

20. 5 Rationing had put an end to a surfeit of biscuits long ago.

21. Cloy definition, to weary by an excess of food, sweetness, pleasure, etc.; surfeit; satiate

22. 18 There has been a surfeit of plays about divorce on the TV recently.

23. 30 Henry I of England dies of food poisoning from a surfeit of lampreys at St.

24. 13 There can never be a surfeit of the propagation of that fundamental message of grace.

25. There can never be a surfeit of the propagation of that fundamental message of grace.

26. 28 Stella - based models such as Limits to Growth possess a remarkable surfeit of feedback circuits.

27. 25 Over-confidence in the early days has led to a surfeit of caution ever since.

28. 20 I think we've had a surfeit of this sort of violent film on TV recently.

29. 26 It is a silly, redundant device that eventually drowns the film in a surfeit of plot.

30. 29 The glutton for two night no sleep can get : the first from surfeit , the second from regret.

31. 24 It's not excess of turkey and plum pudding that has been indigestible; it's the surfeit of news.

32. 27 Then, too, repeated visits to cultural monuments doubtless palled in time, natural curiosity withered by sheer surfeit.

33. The glutton for two night no sleep can get : the first from surfeit ,(Sentencedict.com) the second from regret.

34. 12 Both have been suffering from a surfeit of squash, according to the man who manages them, Norman Norrington.

35. The Contention so far had been that with the surfeit, coal would be so cheap that even the poorest could burn it unstintingly

36. Despite pre-tournament warnings the game cannot seem to rid itself of diving and there was a surfeit of the Antic throughout the competition.

37. Calentures and surfeit, cold and agues, are the four quarters of the year, and all minister to death; and you can go no whither but you tread upon a dead man’s bones

38. 17 We must deal with pleasure as we do with honey, only touch them with the tip of the finger,[www.Sentencedict.com] and not with the whole hand for fear of surfeit. 

39. Rich to the point of surfeit, the language and sentence structure of World's End themselves add to the hallucinatory state of its central character and of the region in which he lives.

40. 1 We must deal with pleasure as we do with honey, only touch them with the tip of the finger, and not with the whole hand for fear of surfeit. 

41. 23 We must deal with pleasure as we do with honey, only touch them with the tip of the finger,[www.Sentencedict.com] and not with the whole hand for fear of surfeit. 

42. Cloy To pierce; gore.; Cloy In farriery, to prick (a horse) in shoeing.; Cloy To stop up; obstruct; clog.; Cloy To spike; drive a spike into the vent of: as, to Cloy a gun.; Cloy To satiate; gratify to repletion or so as to cause loathing; surfeit; sate.; Cloy Synonyms Sate, etc

43. Cloy (v.) "weary by too much, fill to loathing, surfeit," 1520s, from Middle English Cloyen "hinder movement, encumber" (late 14c.), a shortening of acCloyen (early 14c.), from Old French encloer "to fasten with a nail, grip, grasp," figuratively "to hinder, check, stop, curb," from Late Latin inclavare "drive a nail into a horse's foot when shoeing," from Latin clavus "a nail" (from PIE root