cloy

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Pronunciation

• (GA) IPA: /klɔɪ/

Verb

cloy (cloys, present participle cloying; past and past participle cloyed)

1. (transitive) To fill up or choke up; to stop up.
2. (transitive) To clog, to glut, or satisfy, as the appetite; to satiate.
3. (transitive) To fill to loathing; to surfeit.

Synonyms

• (fill or choke up) block, block up, choke, fill, fill up, stop up, stuff, stuff up
• (satiate) fill up, glut, gorge, sate, satiate, satisfy, stodge, stuff, stuff up
• (fill to loathing) jade, nauseate, pall, sicken, surfeit

Related terms

• clove

Translations

• Russian: пресыщать

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