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overcloy

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cloy

  [kloi]
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–verb (used with object)
1. to weary by an excess of food, sweetness, pleasure, etc.; surfeit; satiate.
–verb (used without object)
2. to become uninteresting or distasteful through overabundance: A diet of cake and candy soon cloys.
Origin:
1350–1400; aph. var. of ME acloyen < MF enclo(y)er < LL inclāvāre to nail in, equiv. to in- in- 2 + -clāvāre, v. deriv. of clāvus nail

Synonyms:
1. glut, sate, bore.
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