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

America’s problem right now isn’t a surfeit of political polarization.
The crisis isn’t too much polarization. It’s too little democracy.|Ezra Klein|November 12, 2020|Vox
You know the admonitions of Scripture,—Take heed lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting and drunkenness.
Advice to a Young Man upon First Going to Oxford|Edward Berens
Take heed to yourselves lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting and drunkenness.
Broken Bread|Thomas Champness
In the third place, I would have you know that surfeiting will invariably produce heavy, burning hands.
The Ladies' Vase|An American Lady

There is but little danger of surfeiting him with kindness and advantages, so long as he is deprived of his freedom.
The Twin Hells|John N. Reynolds
So he lived for some days, and the daily surfeiting began to tell on his constitution.
The Lives of the Saints, Volume III (of 16): March|Sabine Baring-Gould

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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