surfeit
excess; an excessive amount: a surfeit of speechmaking.
excess or overindulgence in eating or drinking.
an uncomfortably full or crapulous feeling due to excessive eating or drinking.
general disgust caused by excess or satiety.
to bring to a state of surfeit by excess of food or drink.
to supply with anything to excess or satiety; satiate.
to eat or drink to excess.
to suffer from the effects of overindulgence in eating or drinking.
to indulge to excess in anything.
Origin of surfeit
1Other words for surfeit
Opposites for surfeit
Other words from surfeit
- un·sur·feit·ed, adjective
- un·sur·feit·ing, adjective
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How to use surfeit in a sentence
Both on and off the hill, you’ll find a vibrant, joyful surfeit of international ski bums and upper-crust ski culture crammed happily into a few isolated buildings and some of the most glorious ski runs in the world.
7 South American Ski Resorts to Satisfy Your Summer Powder Craving | POM Administrator | July 22, 2022 | Outside OnlineIn fact, a surfeit of low gears can even act to undermine your morale.
Why Your Bike’s Gear Ratio Is Less Important than You Think | Fred Dreier | July 21, 2022 | Outside OnlineThere are no wrenching epiphanies, just mild embarrassments and a surfeit of confusion.
Paul Auster, Bernhard Schlink, and More of This Week’s Hot Reads: Aug. 13, 2012 | Mythili Rao | August 12, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTThe culture wars have presented us with a surfeit of either/ors.
They drank till from very surfeit they fell down stricken; and three hundred died, slain by the element of life.
God Wills It! | William Stearns Davis
Then the wild beasts hid in the thickets made of them a prey, and they who escaped this evil, perished from the poison of surfeit.
She would have preferred open, antagonistic originality, but she got a surfeit of clear, mirror-like peace.
The Butterfly House | Mary E. Wilkins FreemanPeople were no longer sickened by sloth and surfeit, or deformed and depleted by overwork and famine.
A Traveler from Altruria: Romance | William Dean HowellsHe smelt the Prince's breath, and swore that it stank of a surfeit of undigested Martellian verses.
The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the first | Count Carlo Gozzi
British Dictionary definitions for surfeit
/ (ˈsɜːfɪt) /
(usually foll by of) an excessive or immoderate amount
overindulgence, esp in eating or drinking
disgust, nausea, etc, caused by such overindulgence
(tr) to supply or feed excessively; satiate
(intr) archaic to eat, drink, or be supplied to excess
(intr) obsolete to feel uncomfortable as a consequence of overindulgence
Origin of surfeit
1Derived forms of surfeit
- surfeiter, noun
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