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- pronunciation:
- kloI
- parts of speech:
- transitive verb, intransitive verb
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transitive verb |
| inflections: |
cloys, cloying, cloyed |
| definition: |
to oversupply with something sweet or pleasant so that the experience of these things becomes sickening or wearisome.
We were dazzled by the immense size of the ice cream sundaes, but the sweetness eventually cloyed us.- antonyms:
- whet
- similar words:
- bore, disgust, exhaust, glut, nauseate, sate, satiate, saturate, sicken, surfeit, tire, weary
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| part of speech: |
intransitive verb |
| definition: |
to become sickening or wearisome by being excessively sweet or pleasant.
Too much of any pleasant thing, even spending time with amiable friends, can eventually cloy.- similar words:
- numb, pall, sicken
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| derivations: |
cloyingly (adv.), cloyingness (n.) |
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