cloy

1. v. t. To fill or choke up; to stop up; to clog. Source: opted

2. v. t. To glut, or satisfy, as the appetite; to satiate; to fill to loathing; to surfeit. Source: opted

3. v. t. To penetrate or pierce; to wound. Source: opted

4. v. t. To spike, as a cannon. Source: opted

5. v. t. To stroke with a claw. Source: opted

6. v. supply or feed to surfeit Source: wordnet

7. v. cause surfeit through excess though initially pleasing Source: wordnet

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. Source: webster

9. v. cause surfeit through excess though initially pleasing Source: ecdict

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