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Definition of 'cloy'

verb

Supply or feed to surfeit [syn: surfeit, cloy]

verb

Cause surfeit through excess though initially pleasing; "Too much spicy food cloyed his appetite" [syn: cloy, pall]

From: GCIDE

Cloy \Cloy\ (kloi), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cloyed (kloid); p. pr. & vb. n. Cloying.] [OE. cloer to nail up, F. clouer, fr. OF. clo nail, F. clou, fr. L. clavus nail. Cf. 3d Clove.]
1. To fill or choke up; to stop up; to clog. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
The duke's purpose was to have cloyed the harbor by sinking ships, laden with stones. --Speed. [1913 Webster]
2. To glut, or satisfy, as the appetite; to satiate; to fill to loathing; to surfeit. [1913 Webster]
[Who can] cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast? --Shak. [1913 Webster]
He sometimes cloys his readers instead of satisfying. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
3. To penetrate or pierce; to wound. [1913 Webster]
Which, with his cruel tusk, him deadly cloyed. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
He never shod horse but he cloyed him. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
4. To spike, as a cannon. [Obs.] --Johnson. [1913 Webster]
5. To stroke with a claw. [Obs.] --Shak. [1913 Webster]