surfeit

[ sur-fit ]

/ ˈsɜr fɪt /

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noun

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.

verb (used with object)

to bring to a state of surfeit by excess of food or drink.

to supply with anything to excess or satiety; satiate.

verb (used without object)

to eat or drink to excess.

to suffer from the effects of overindulgence in eating or drinking.

to indulge to excess in anything.

OTHER WORDS FOR surfeit

1 superabundance, superfluity.

5, 6 stuff, gorge.

6 fill.

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OPPOSITES FOR surfeit

1 lack.

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Origin of surfeit

1250–1300; (noun) Middle English sorfete, surfait<Middle French surfait, surfet (noun use of past participle of surfaire to overdo), equivalent to sur-sur-¹ + fait<Latin factus, past participle of facere to do (see fact); (v.) sorfeten, derivative of the noun

OTHER WORDS FROM surfeit

un·sur·feit·ed, adjectiveun·sur·feit·ing, adjective

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How to use surfeit in a sentence

Having finished his meal the great beast, surfeited with food, slowly moved off into the jungle.
In Africa|John T. McCutcheon
He went towards them; the blood flushed up in his face, he felt almost surfeited by some sweet emotion.
Villa Rubein and Other Stories|John Galsworthy
The next morning we made Kurrimao, which has a shore-line strikingly picturesque in a land almost surfeited with the picturesque.
The Head Hunters of Northern Luzon From Ifugao to Kalinga|Cornelis De Witt Willcox
Then, surfeited with slaughter, they turned to plunder the abandoned camp; otherwise there would have been escape for few.
The Old Northwest|Frederic Austin Ogg

In short, the whole subject is so curious, so strange that the investigator of these mysteries is never surfeited.
Mysterious Psychic Forces|Camille Flammarion

British Dictionary definitions for surfeit

surfeit

/ (ˈsɜːfɪt) /

noun

(usually foll by of) an excessive or immoderate amount

overindulgence, esp in eating or drinking

disgust, nausea, etc, caused by such overindulgence

verb

(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

Derived forms of surfeit

surfeiter, noun

Word Origin for surfeit

C13: from French surfait, from surfaire to overdo, from sur- 1 + faire, from Latin facere to do

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