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
A man never surfeits of too much honesty.
From Dictionary of English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases With a Copious Index of Principal Words by Thomas Preston
I see that plenty surfeits oft, And hasty climbers soonest fall; I see that such as are aloft, Mishap doth threaten most of all.
From Lyrics from the Song-Books of the Elizabethan Age by A. H. (Arthur Henry) Bullen
Their rest is not disturbed by the fear of thieves and robbers, nor is it interrupted by surfeits of intemperance.
From The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 04 Swift's Writings on Religion and the Church — Volume 2 by Jonathan Swift
