Thesaurus: cloy

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1. v. t. To fill or choke up; to stop up; to clog.
2. v. t. To glut, or satisfy, as the appetite; to satiate; to fill to loathing; to surfeit.
3. v. t. To penetrate or pierce; to wound.
4. v. t. To spike, as a cannon.
5. v. t. To stroke with a claw.
6. v. supply or feed to surfeit
7. v. cause surfeit through excess though initially pleasing
8. 1. To fill or choke up; to stop up; to clog. [Obs.] The duke's purpose was to have cloyed the harbor by sinking ships, laden with stones. Speed. 2. To glut, or satisfy, as the appetite; to satiate; to fill to loathing; to surfeit. [Who can] cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast Shak. He sometimes cloys his readers instead of satisfying. Dryden. 3. To penetrate or pierce; to wound. Which, with his cruel tusk, him deadly cloyed. Spenser. He never shod horse but he cloyed him. Bacon. 4. To spike, as a cannon. [Obs.] Johnson. 5. To stroke with a claw. [Obs.] Shak.
9. v. cause surfeit through excess though initially pleasing