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单词 cloy
释义 cloy
\ˈklȯi\ verb
(-ed/-ing/-s)
Etymology: short for accloy
transitive verb
1. obsolete : to prick (a horse) with a nail in shoeing
2. obsolete : to fill or choke up : stop up : clog
3. : to surfeit or make weary with an excess usually of something originally pleasing
 < Cordelia has been cloyed by her sisters' excessive protestations of affection — Rebecca West >
intransitive verb
: to cause surfeit : be or become insipid or distasteful usually through an excess of an originally pleasurable quality (as sweetness)
 < persons and places had begun to cloyTime >
 < few pleasures sooner cloy than reading what the reviewers say — A.T.Quiller-Couch >
Synonyms: see satiate
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