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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
cloy
    v 1: supply or feed to surfeit [syn: surfeit, cloy]
    2: cause surfeit through excess though initially pleasing; "Too
       much spicy food cloyed his appetite" [syn: cloy, pall]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Cloy \Cloy\ (kloi), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cloyed (kloid); p. pr.
   & vb. n. Cloying.] [OE. cloer to nail up, F. clouer, fr.
   OF. clo nail, F. clou, fr. L. clavus nail. Cf. 3d Clove.]
   1. To fill or choke up; to stop up; to clog. [Obs.]
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            The duke's purpose was to have cloyed the harbor by
            sinking ships, laden with stones.     --Speed.
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   2. To glut, or satisfy, as the appetite; to satiate; to fill
      to loathing; to surfeit.
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            [Who can] cloy the hungry edge of appetite
            By bare imagination of a feast?       --Shak.
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            He sometimes cloys his readers instead of
            satisfying.                           --Dryden.
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   3. To penetrate or pierce; to wound.
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            Which, with his cruel tusk, him deadly cloyed.
                                                  --Spenser.
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            He never shod horse but he cloyed him. --Bacon.
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   4. To spike, as a cannon. [Obs.] --Johnson.
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   5. To stroke with a claw. [Obs.] --Shak.
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Thesaurus Results for Cloy:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
allay, cram, engorge, fill, fill up, glut, gorge, jade, overdose, overfeed, overfill, overgorge, oversaturate, overstuff, pall, sate, satiate, satisfy, saturate, slake, stall, stodge, stuff, supersaturate, surfeit
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