cloy
cloy is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 4 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 38 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.To glut, or satisfy, as the appetite; to satiate; to fill to loathing; to surfeit. [Who can] cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast Shak. He sometimes cloys his readers instead of satisfying. Dryden.
- 2.To penetrate or pierce; to wound. Which, with his cruel tusk, him deadly cloyed. Spenser. He never shod horse but he cloyed him. Bacon.
- 3.To spike, as a cannon. [Obs.] Johnson.
- 4.To stroke with a claw. [Obs.] Shak.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- basta
- blase
- bore
- child
- cloyment
- enough
- fatigue
- fill
- glut
- good
- gorge
- have
- heartsick
- hold
- jam
- much
- pall
- quench
- quite
- repletion
- sate
- satiate
- satiation
- satiety
- satisfaction
- satisfy
- saturate
- saturation
- sick
- slake
- spoil
- surfeit
- terrible
- thing
- tire
- too
- weariness
- weary
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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