cloy
to weary by an excess of food, sweetness, pleasure, etc.; surfeit; satiate.
to become uninteresting or distasteful through overabundance: A diet of cake and candy soon cloys.
Origin of cloy
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Other words from cloy
- o·ver·cloy, verb (used with object)
- un·cloyed, adjective
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How to use cloy in a sentence
Over-sentimental and apt to cloy, it is eminently poetical and full of melody.
Masters of French Music | Arthur HerveyThe sweets of that sort of thing began to cloy, and I resolved upon immediate action.
Summer Cruising in the South Seas | Charles Warren StoddardHe feasted upon it to satiety as he did with everything else; never having learned not to cloy his appetite by over-feeding.
When Knighthood Was in Flower | Charles MajorThe natural result of all which was that I approached the story prepared for the stickiest of American cloy-fiction.
They cloy the ear, and the mind that has been made sensitive, desiring something of a finer type of stimulation.
Adventures in the Arts | Marsden Hartley
British Dictionary definitions for cloy
/ (klɔɪ) /
to make weary or cause weariness through an excess of something initially pleasurable or sweet
Origin of cloy
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