About The Word Cloy
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Cloy
Cloy Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Cloy?
[v] cause surfeit through excess, of something that was initially pleasing; "Too much spicy food cloyed his appetite"
[v] supply or feed to surfeit Synonyms | Synonyms for Cloy: pall | surfeit Related Terms | Find terms related to Cloy: 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 See Also | fill | furnish | provide | render | replete | sate | satiate | supply Cloy In Webster's Dictionary \Cloy\ (kloi), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Cloyed} (kloid); p. pr.
& vb. n. {Cloying}.] [OE. cloer to nail up, F. clouer, fr.
OF. clo nail, F. clou, fr. L. clavus nail. Cf. 3d {Clove}.]
1. To fill or choke up; to stop up; to clog. [Obs.]
The duke's purpose was to have cloyed the harbor by
sinking ships, laden with stones. --Speed.
2. To glut, or satisfy, as the appetite; to satiate; to fill
to loathing; to surfeit.
[Who can] cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare
imagination of a feast? --Shak.
He sometimes cloys his readers instead of
satisfying. --Dryden.
3. To penetrate or pierce; to wound.
Which, with his cruel tusk, him deadly cloyed.
--Spenser.
He never shod horse but he cloyed him. --Bacon.
4. To spike, as a cannon. [Obs.] --Johnson.
5. To stroke with a claw. [Obs.] --Shak.
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