surfeit

adjective · noun · verbB1

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Tính từ

adjective

Comparative

more surfeit

Superlative

most surfeit

1.
(archaic)Sated; surfeited; filled.

Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

surfeits

1.
(countable)An excessive amount of something.
A surfeit of wheat is driving down the price.
2.
(uncountable)Overindulgence in either food or drink; overeating.
3.
(countable)A sickness or condition caused by overindulgence.
King Henry I is said to have died of a surfeit of lampreys.
4.
(countable, uncountable)Disgust caused by excess; satiety.
5.
(countable)A group of skunks.

Động từ

verb

V_es/s

surfeits

V_ing/Gerund

surfeiting

V_ed/pp

surfeited

1.
(transitive)To fill (something) to excess.
Đồng nghĩa: stuff
2.
(transitive)To feed (someone) to excess (on, upon or with something).
She surfeited her children on sweets.
Đồng nghĩa: glut, overfeed, stuff
3.
(transitive)To make (someone) sick as a result of overconsumption.
4.
(figuratively, transitive)(transitive, figurative) To supply (someone) with something to excess; to disgust (someone) through overabundance.
1697, Aphra Behn, “On an ungrateful and undeserving Mistress, whom he cou’d not help Loving” in Poems upon Several Occasions, London: Francis Saunders, p. 50, While some glad Rival in her Arms did lye, Glutted with Love and surfeited with Joy.
Đồng nghĩa: cloy, glut
5.
(figuratively, sometimes, transitive)(transitive, sometimes figurative) To satisfy (someone's appetite) to excess.
Đồng nghĩa: glut
6.
(intransitive, reflexive)To overeat or feed to excess (on or upon something).
Đồng nghĩa: glut, indulge, overfeed, overindulge
7.
(figuratively, intransitive, reflexive)(intransitive, reflexive, figurative) To indulge (in something) to excess.
8.
(figuratively, intransitive, reflexive, sometimes)(intransitive, reflexive, sometimes figurative) To become sick from overindulgence.

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Đồng nghĩa

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Nguồn gốc từ

From Middle English surfeite, surfet, a borrowing from surfet, surfeit and Old French sorfet, sorfait, past participle of surfaire (to augment, exaggerate, exceed), from sur- (over) + faire (to do). The adjective is derived from the noun.