cloy

Definitions

verb

1

To fill up or choke up; to stop up.

2

To clog, to glut, or satisfy, as the appetite; to satiate.

3

To fill to loathing; to surfeit.

Now all this was very fine, but not at all in keeping with the Celebrity's character as I had come to conceive it. The idea that adulation ever cloyed on him was ludicrous in itself. In fact I thought the whole story fishy, and came very near to saying so.

name

1

A male given name.

The third Iraq veteran -- 23-year-old Cloy Richards of Salem, Missouri, who was wounded in combat -- will avoid losing his disability benefits after agreeing not to wear his uniform at future protests, the Marine Corps said.

Collocations

1

CLOY + NOUN

richards, salem

Thesaurus

Synonyms

verb — cause surfeit through excess though initially pleasing

pall

verb — supply or feed to surfeit

surfeit

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

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Now all this was very fine, but not at all in keeping with the Celebrity's character as I had come to conceive it. The idea that adulation ever cloyed on him was ludicrous in itself. In fact I thought

Wiktionary

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The third Iraq veteran -- 23-year-old Cloy Richards of Salem, Missouri, who was wounded in combat -- will avoid losing his disability benefits after agreeing not to wear his uniform at future protests