cloy
21cloy — /kloy/, v.t. 1. to weary by an excess of food, sweetness, pleasure, etc.; surfeit; satiate. v.i. 2. to become uninteresting or distasteful through overabundance: A diet of cake and candy soon cloys. [1350 1400; aph. var. of ME acloyen < MF… …
22cloy — verb /klɔɪ/ a) To fill up or choke up; to stop up. b) To clog, to glut, or satisfy, as the appetite; to …
23Cloy — Recorded in over fifty different spellings from Lewis, Lois, Lowis and Loisi, to such as Ludovici, Lotze, Lohde, and Ludwikiewicz, tjroughout Europe this great and ancient name is generally accepted as deriving from the pre 7th century Old… …
24cloy — Synonyms and related words: allay, cram, engorge, fill, fill up, glut, gorge, jade, overdose, overfeed, overfill, overgorge, oversaturate, overstuff, pall, sate, satiate, satisfy, saturate, slake, stall, stodge, stuff, supersaturate, surfeit …
25cloy — klɔɪ v. cause to feel satiated or gorged; fatten oneself, gorge oneself …
26cloy — verb [usu. as adjective cloying] disgust or sicken with an excess of sweetness, richness, or sentiment. Derivatives cloyingly adverb Origin ME: shortening of obs. accloy stop up, choke , from OFr. encloyer drive a nail into …
27cloy — v. a. Satiate, glut, surfeit, pall, sate …
28cloy — v 1. glut, stuff, cram, gorge, overfeed; surfeit, pall, overfill, overdo; satiate, sate, saturate, fill up, satisfy, suffice. 2. choke, gag, sicken, nauseate; dull, deaden, numb, benumb, blunt, obtund; weary, exhaust, tire, bore …
29cloy — [[t]klɔɪ[/t]] v. t. 1) to weary by excess; surfeit; satiate 2) to become wearisome or distasteful through excess • Etymology: 1350–1400; aph. var. of ME acloyen < MF enclo(y)er < LL inclāvāre to nail in = in II+ clāvāre, v. der. of clāvus… …
30cloy — /klɔɪ / (say kloy) verb (t) 1. to weary by an excess of food, sweetness, pleasure, etc.; surfeit; satiate. –verb (i) 2. to cause someone to feel satiated or surfeited. {aphetic variant of obsolete acloy to stop up, drive in a nail, ? from Middle… …
