surfeit

[sur-fit]

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.

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

Related formsun·sur·feit·ed, adjectiveun·sur·feit·ing, adjective

Synonyms for surfeit

1. superabundance, superfluity. 5, 6. stuff, gorge. 6. fill.

Antonyms for surfeit

1. lack.

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Related Words for surfeiting

profusion, glut, plethora, saturation, surplus, overabundance, plenitude, superabundance, overmuch, overindulgence, satisfaction, superfluity, repletion, satiety, overflow, remainder, bellyful, overplus, overkill, satisfy

Examples from the Web for surfeiting

Historical Examples of surfeiting

I am the same as when you knew me, almost to a surfeiting identity.
Mary Lamb
Anne Burrows Gilchrist
But the idle, starving slave is a danger to the idle, surfeiting master.
Communism and Christianism
William Montgomery Brown
“Not in surfeiting and wantonness, not in causality and uncleanness,” with what follows.
Adventures among Books
Andrew Lang
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
And betimes eating cheese and crackers, and drinking beer, and surfeiting the air with the delicious fumes of his strong pipe.
Edith and John
Franklin S. Farquhar

British Dictionary definitions for surfeiting

surfeit

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 Formssurfeiter, 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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Word Origin and History for surfeiting

surfeit

early 14c., "excess quantity;" late 14c., "overindulgence," from Old French surfet "excess," noun use of past participle of surfaire "overdo," from sur- "over" (see sur-) + faire "do," from Latin facere "to make" (see factitious).

surfeit

late 14c., from surfeit (n.). Related: Surfeited; surfeiting.