surfeit
noun
excess; an excessive amount.
surfeits
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present tense formof surfeit (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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The company built pellet plants across the southern U.S., moving into parts of the pinery where pulp and paper mills had closed and left behind surfeits of sawdust, wood chips and cheap pulpwood.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
Increasingly in the '80s, Halloween has become an escapist extravaganza for adults, a trickless treat that more closely resembles Mardi Gras than the candy-and-apple surfeits of yesteryear.
From Time Magazine Archive
Fare ye well: Thou hast years upon thee; and thou art too full Of the wars' surfeits to go rove with one That's yet unbruis'd: bring me but out at gate.—
From Coriolanus by William Shakespeare
That is, surfeits are dangerous; but the proverb which follows shows, as usual, that there is no rule without an exception.
From The Proverbs of Scotland by Alexander Hislop
We love not loaded boards and goblets crown'd, But free from surfeits our repose is sound.
From Poetical Works of Edmund Waller and Sir John Denham by Sir John Denham
