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surfeit
| Main Entry: | |
| 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 |
| Main Entry: | cloy |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | overfill |
| Synonyms: | disgust, fill, glut, gorge, jade, nauseate, pall, sate, satiate, satisfy, sicken, stall, stodge, suffice, surfeit, weary |
| Main Entry: | disgust |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cause aversion; repel |
| Synonyms: | abominate, be repulsive, bother, cloy on, disenchant, displease, disturb, fill with loathing, gross out, insult, irk, make one sick, nauseate, offend, offend morals of, outrage, pall, pique, put off, reluct, repulse, revolt, scandalize, shock, sicken, surfeit, turn off, turn one's stomach, upset |
| Antonyms: | admire, appeal, desire, esteem, like, love, respect, revere |
| 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: | gorge |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | eat voraciously |
| Synonyms: | blimp out, bolt*, cloy, congest, cram, devour, eat like a horse, feed, fill, glut, gobble, gormandize, gulp, guzzle, hoover, jade, jam, make a pig of, overeat, overindulge, pack, sate, satiate, stuff*, surfeit, swallow, wolf* |
| Notes: | a canyon is a narrow chasm with steep cliff walls formed by running water; a gorge is a deep narrow passage with steep rocky sides formed by running water; a ravine is a deep narrow steep-sided valley formed by running water |
| Antonyms: | abstain, diet, fast |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | load |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | burden, saddle |
| Synonyms: | arrange, ballast, bear, carry, charge, chock, choke, containerize, cram, fill, flood, freight, glut, gorge, heap, heap up, jam*, lade, lumber, mass, oversupply, pack, pile, pile it on, pile up, place, pour in, put aboard, ram in, stack, store, stow, stuff, surfeit, swamp, top, top off, weigh, weigh down, weight |
| Antonyms: | aid, assist, benefit, bless, help |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | overeat |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | eat too much |
| Synonyms: | binge*, eat like a horse, feast, gluttonize, gorge, gourmandize, overindulge, pack it away, pig out, pig*, put it away, scarf, stuff one's face, stuff oneself, surfeit |
| Antonyms: | diet, fast |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | pall |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | bore, tire |
| Synonyms: | become dull, become tedious, cloy, disgust, fill, glut, gorge, jade, sate, satiate, sicken, surfeit, weary |
| Antonyms: | brighten, excite, make happy |
| Main Entry: | satiate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | stuff, satisfy completely or excessively |
| Synonyms: | cloy, content, feed to gills, fill, glut, gorge, gratify, indulge, jade, nauseate, overdose, overfill, pall, sate, saturate, slake, surfeit |
| Antonyms: | deprive, dissatisfy, leave wanting |
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