surfeit

IPA: sˈɝfʌt

noun

  • (countable) An excessive amount of something.
  • (uncountable) Overindulgence in either food or drink; overeating.
  • (countable) A sickness or condition caused by overindulgence.
  • Disgust caused by excess; satiety.
  • (countable) A group of skunks.

verb

  • (transitive) To fill (something) to excess.
  • (transitive) To feed (someone) to excess (on, upon or with something).
  • (transitive) To make (someone) sick as a result of overconsumption.
  • (transitive, figurative) To supply (someone) with something to excess; to disgust (someone) through overabundance.
  • (transitive) To satisfy (someone's appetite) to excess (both literally and figuratively).
  • (intransitive, reflexive) To overeat or feed to excess (on or upon something).
  • (intransitive, reflexive, figurative) To indulge (in something) to excess.
  • (intransitive, reflexive) To become sick from overindulgence (both literally and figuratively).
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Examples of "surfeit" in Sentences

  • There is a surfeit of violations.
  • The surfeit of images gives the articles an ugly look.
  • Secondly, many of the boxes have a surfeit of information.
  • There is a surfeit of temples in this town, numbering over 100.
  • Does anyone feel that this page suffers from a surfeit of photos
  • At various times, there may be a surfeit of available administrators.
  • They provide a surfeit of information, primarily to the storm history.
  • People, who have an experience of drowning, suffer a surfeit of water.
  • This article is already over burdened by a surfeit of individual events.
  • Anyway, a lack of references is a problem, a surfeit of references is not.
  • For Augustine says (Confess. ii, 6) that "lust affects to be called surfeit and abundance."
  • Apres Chremslech I trust you are not suffering from 'Pharoah's Revenge' otherwise known as a surfeit of Matzot.
  • A peculiar eruption, termed surfeit, which resembles mange, is sometimes the consequence of exposure to cold after a hot sultry day.
  • The Monastic Impulse is based on world-weariness, with disappointed love, or sex surfeit, which is a phase of the same thing, as a basis.
  • But the surfeit is a far cry from earlier in 2010, when the network scrambled to fill five hours of primetime programming after canceling Leno's primetime show.
  • This disease is perhaps generally left after a slight inflammation of the stomach, called a surfeit, occasioned by drinking cold liquors, or eating cold vegetables, when heated with exercise.
  • They were explained in two ways: at the time of a fresh injection, the toxin was added to the amount already absorbed by the body, and thus had a heightened effect (Koch, Richet); or else certain subjects were occasionally and paradoxically hypersensitive, and this, as it were, by a kind of surfeit caused by repeated doses of the toxin (Behring).
  • Tough call, but I probably like his "Many Moons" even a little better, both because it includes the word "surfeit" (the Princess falls ill from a surfeit of blueberry tarts) and because it covers astrophysics (all the King's royal advisers tell him it's impossible to have the moon on a chain because it's way too big, but the Jester figures out a way).

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