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cloy
/ klɔɪ /
verb
- to make weary or cause weariness through an excess of something initially pleasurable or sweet
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- over·cloy verb (used with object)
- un·cloyed adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of cloy1
C14 (originally: to nail, hence, to obstruct): from earlier acloyen, from Old French encloer , from Medieval Latin inclavāre, from Latin clāvāre to nail, from clāvus a nail
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Example Sentences
Over-sentimental and apt to cloy, it is eminently poetical and full of melody.
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The sweets of that sort of thing began to cloy, and I resolved upon immediate action.
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He feasted upon it to satiety as he did with everything else; never having learned not to cloy his appetite by over-feeding.
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The natural result of all which was that I approached the story prepared for the stickiest of American cloy-fiction.
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They cloy the ear, and the mind that has been made sensitive, desiring something of a finer type of stimulation.
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