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
Having finished his meal the great beast, surfeited with food, slowly moved off into the jungle.
In Africa | John T. McCutcheonHe went towards them; the blood flushed up in his face, he felt almost surfeited by some sweet emotion.
Villa Rubein and Other Stories | John GalsworthyThe 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 WillcoxThen, surfeited with slaughter, they turned to plunder the abandoned camp; otherwise there would have been escape for few.
The Old Northwest | Frederic Austin OggIn 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
/ (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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