'Surfeit' definitions:
Definition of 'surfeit'
From: WordNet
noun
The state of being more than full [syn: surfeit, excess, overabundance]
noun
The quality of being so overabundant that prices fall [syn: glut, oversupply, surfeit]
noun
Eating until excessively full [syn: repletion, surfeit]
verb
Supply or feed to surfeit [syn: surfeit, cloy]
verb
Indulge (one's appetite) to satiety
Definition of 'Surfeit'
From: GCIDE
- Surfeit \Sur"feit\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Surfeited; p. pr. & vb. n. Surfeiting.]
- 1. 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. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To fill to satiety and disgust; to cloy; as, he surfeits us with compliments. --V. Knox. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Surfeit'
From: GCIDE
- Surfeit \Sur"feit\, n. [OE. surfet, OF. surfait, sorfait, excess, arrogance, crime, fr. surfaire, sorfaire, to augment, exaggerate, F. surfaire to overcharge; sur over + faire to make, do, L. facere. See Sur-, and Fact.]
- 1. Excess in eating and drinking. [1913 Webster]
- Let not Sir Surfeit sit at thy board. --Piers Plowman. [1913 Webster]
- Now comes the sick hour that his surfeit made. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Fullness and oppression of the system, occasioned often by excessive eating and drinking. [1913 Webster]
- To prevent surfeit and other diseases that are incident to those that heat their blood by travels. --Bunyan. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Disgust caused by excess; satiety. --Sir P. Sidney. [1913 Webster]
- Matter and argument have been supplied abundantly, and even to surfeit. --Burke. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Surfeit'
From: GCIDE
- Surfeit \Sur"feit\, v. i.
- 1. To load the stomach with food, so that sickness or uneasiness ensues; to eat to excess. [1913 Webster]
- They are as sick that surfeit with too much as they that starve with nothing. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To indulge to satiety in any gratification. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'surfeit'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- allay,
- amplitude,
- bellyful,
- brim,
- charge,
- chock,
- choke,
- cloy,
- congest,
- congestion,
- cram,
- crowd,
- deluge,
- drench,
- engorge,
- engorgement,
- excess,
- fill,
- fill to overflowing,
- fill up,
- flood,
- flood tide,
- freight,
- full,
- fullness,
- glut,
- gluttonize,
- gorge,
- high tide,
- high water,
- hyperemia,
- impletion,
- jade,
- jam,
- jam-pack,
- lade,
- load,
- more than enough,
- nimiety,
- overabundance,
- overbrimming,
- overburden,
- overcharge,
- overdose,
- overfeed,
- overfill,
- overflow,
- overfreight,
- overfullness,
- overgorge,
- overindulge,
- overkill,
- overlade,
- overload,
- overmuch,
- overplus,
- oversaturate,
- overspill,
- overstuff,
- oversupply,
- overweight,
- pack,
- pad,
- pall,
- plenitude,
- plethora,
- ram in,
- repletion,
- sate,
- satiate,
- satiation,
- satiety,
- satisfaction,
- satisfy,
- saturate,
- saturatedness,
- saturation,
- saturation point,
- skinful,
- slake,
- snootful,
- soak,
- spring tide,
- stall,
- stodge,
- stuff,
- superabundance,
- supercharge,
- superfluity,
- supersaturate,
- supersaturation,
- surcharge,
- surplus,
- surplusage,
- top off,
- wad,
- weight