Definition of Surfeit

  • (n.) Excess in eating and drinking.
  • (n.) Fullness and oppression of the system, occasioned often by excessive eating and drinking.
  • (n.) Disgust caused by excess; satiety.
  • (v. i.) To load the stomach with food, so that sickness or uneasiness ensues; to eat to excess.
  • (v. i.) To indulge to satiety in any gratification.
  • (v. t.) To feed so as to oppress the stomach and derange the function of the system; to overfeed, and produce satiety, sickness, or uneasiness; -- often reflexive; as, to surfeit one's self with sweets.
  • (v. t.) To fill to satiety and disgust; to cloy; as, he surfeits us with compliments.

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Homophones of Surfeit


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