surfeit
noun
excess; an excessive amount.
surfeiting
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present participleof surfeit.present participle
A verb form that is used in progressive verb constructions and may also function as a modifier or a gerund.
Example Sentences
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What the Valentine's cards forget is that the lovesick duke who speaks the words wants to overeat so that "surfeiting/ The appetite may sicken, and so die."
From The Guardian ● Feb. 14, 2013
They were easier to swallow because they lacked liver's surfeiting taste, and a dessertspoonful in water or tomato juice once a day was sufficient for health.
From Time Magazine Archive
At first the effect was flat, then the subtle fascination of it grew until the very memory of impassioned tones was florid and surfeiting.
From The Splendid Idle Forties Stories of Old California by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
Sir 37:31 By surfeiting have many perished; but he that taketh heed prolongeth his life.
From Deuterocanonical Books of the Bible Apocrypha by Anonymous
Madame recommenced advising him; he shook his head, laughing, rose and bid her good-morning, with courtesy, but still with the regardless air of one whom too much unsolicited attention was surfeiting and spoiling.
From Villette by Charlotte Brontë
