cloy
verb (used with object)
to weary by an excess of food, sweetness, pleasure, etc.; surfeit; satiate.
had cloyed
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past perfectof cloy.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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"And now you know where the real Lady Josceline Justice is," said Farish M'Kissock drearily, almost as if the savour of his overwhelming revenge on all who had wronged him had cloyed already.
From The White Blackbird by Hudson Douglas
And so she had wearied him, who saw in her no more than a sweet loveliness that had cloyed him presently.
From The Lion's Skin by Rafael Sabatini
In the meantime the glance of Joan had cloyed itself with sufficient examination of the strangers, and now she turned back towards the door and the meadow beyond.
From The Seventh Man by Max Brand
After the material banquet had cloyed the hungry edge of appetite, began the feast of reason and the flow of soul.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858 by Various
His studies for the early History of Britain had cloyed him with legends conveyed from book to book.
From Milton by Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh
