cloy
/kloi/US // klɔɪ //UK // (klɔɪ) //
腼腆,腼腆的,腼腆的人
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Definitions
v.有主动词 verb
- 1
- : to weary by an excess of food, sweetness, pleasure, etc.; surfeit; satiate.
v.无主动词 verb
- 1
- : to become uninteresting or distasteful through overabundance: A diet of cake and candy soon cloys.
Synonyms & Antonyms
verboverfill
Forms: cloyed, cloying
Examples
Over-sentimental and apt to cloy, it is eminently poetical and full of melody.
The sweets of that sort of thing began to cloy, and I resolved upon immediate action.
He feasted upon it to satiety as he did with everything else; never having learned not to cloy his appetite by over-feeding.
The natural result of all which was that I approached the story prepared for the stickiest of American cloy-fiction.
They cloy the ear, and the mind that has been made sensitive, desiring something of a finer type of stimulation.
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