cloy
verb (used with object)
to weary by an excess of food, sweetness, pleasure, etc.; surfeit; satiate.
cloyed
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past participleof cloy.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof cloy.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
cloyverb (used with object)to weary by an excess of food, sweetness, pleasure, etc.; surfeit; satiate.
Example Sentences
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Her formula, a combination of hard masculine realism with feminine deftness and sympathy, pleased many a post-War reader cloyed with hard-boiled sentimentality.
From Time Magazine Archive
He envies the young for being young and for possessing the integrity that has eroded in him, the appetite for life that has cloyed on his palate, and the courage that has been drowned.
From Time Magazine Archive
If this cloyed on Holmes, he never gave a sign; he was obviously having too much fun watching Laski's continuous intellectual floor show.
From Time Magazine Archive
Appetites already cloyed by the night’s heat were further diminished.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
She has gifts that have not cloyed, For these gifts she has employed, And improved: She has bliss which lives and leans Upon loving—and that means She is loved.
From A Selection from the Works of Frederick Locker by Hannah Jane Locker-Lampson
