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overfed
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | heavier than average |
| Synonyms: | ample, bulky, corpulent, fat, fleshy, gross, heavy, hefty, huge, massive, obese, outsize, overfed, overstuffed, plump, portly, pudgy, rotund, stout, upholstered, weighty |
| Antonyms: | skinny, thin, underweight |
| Main Entry: | fatten |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | grow or make bigger; nourish |
| Synonyms: | augment, bloat, broaden, build up, coarsen, cram, distend, expand, feed, fill, gain weight, increase, overfeed, plump, put flesh on, put on weight, round out, spread, stuff, swell, thicken, thrive, wax |
| Antonyms: | thin, undernourish |
| Main Entry: | glut |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | choke; oversupply |
| Synonyms: | burden, clog, cloy, congest, cram, deluge, devour, feast, fill, flood, gorge, hog, inundate, jade, load, make a pig of, overfeed, overload, overstock, overwhelm, pack*, pall, raven, sate, satiate, saturate, stuff, surfeit, wolf* |
| Antonyms: | abstain, diet, fast, moderate, reduce, repress, suppress |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | surfeit |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | overfill |
| Synonyms: | cloy, cram, eat, fill, glut, gorge, jade, overfeed, overindulge, pall, sate, satiate, satisfy, stuff |
| Notes: | plethora is too many of a good or bad thing and surfeit is too much of a good thing |
| Antonyms: | deplete, use up |
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