Word Meanings - CLOY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To fill or choke up; to stop up; to clog. 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. cloy the hungry edge

Additional info about word: CLOY

1. To fill or choke up; to stop up; to clog. 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. 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. Johnson. 5. To stroke with a claw. Shak.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CLOY)

• Glut Gorge
• fill
• stuff
• cram
• satiate
• cloy
• surfeit
• Pall
• Blunt
• dispirit

Related words: (words related to CLOY)

• GORGEOUS
  Imposing through splendid or various colors; showy; fine; magnificent. Cloud-land, gorgeous land. Coleridge. Gogeous as the sun at midsummer. Shak. -- Gor"geous*ly, adv. -- Gor"geous*ness, n. (more info) luxurious; cf. OF. gorgias ruff,
• DISPIRITED
  Depressed in spirits; disheartened; daunted. -- Dis*pir"it*ed*ly, adv. -- Dis*pir"it*ed, n.
• BLUNTISH
  Somewhat blunt. -- Blunt"ish*ness, n.
• GORGET
  A crescent-shaped, colored patch on the neck of a bird or mammal. Gorget hummer , a humming bird of the genus Trochilus. See Rubythroat. (more info) 1. A piece of armor, whether of chain mail or of plate, defending the throat and upper part of
• BLUNTLY
  In a blunt manner; coarsely; plainly; abruptly; without delicacy, or the usual forms of civility. Sometimes after bluntly giving his opinions, he would quietly lay himself asleep until the end of their deliberations. Jeffrey.
• STUFFING
  Any seasoning preparation used to stuff meat; especially, a composition of bread, condiments, spices, etc.; forcemeat; dressing. 3. A mixture of oil and tallow used in softening and dressing leather. Stuffing box, a device for rendering a joint
• SURFEIT-WATER
  Water for the cure of surfeits. Locke.
• SURFEIT
  arrogance, crime, fr. surfaire, sorfaire, to augment, exaggerate, F. surfaire to overcharge; sur over + faire to make, do, L. facere. See 1. Excess in eating and drinking. Let not Sir Surfeit sit at thy board. Piers Plowman. Now comes the sick
• DISPIRITMENT
  Depression of spirits; discouragement. Procter, in evident distress and dispiritment, was waiting the slow conclusion of this. Carlyle.
• SURFEITER
  One who surfeits. Shak.
• BLUNTNESS
  1. Want of edge or point; dullness; obtuseness; want of sharpness. The multitude of elements and bluntness of angles. Holland. 2. A bruptness of address; rude plainness. "Bluntness of speech." Boyle.
• STUFFINESS
  The quality of being stuffy.
• BLUNT
  1. Having a thick edge or point, as an instrument; dull; not sharp. The murderous knife was dull and blunt. Shak. 2. Dull in understanding; slow of discernment; stupid; -- opposed to acute. His wits are not so blunt. Shak. 3. Abrupt in address;
• DISPIRIT
  1. To deprive of cheerful spirits; to depress the spirits of; to dishearten; to discourage. Not dispirited with my afflictions. Dryden. He has dispirited himself by a debauch. Collier. 2. To distill or infuse the spirit of. This makes a man master
• STUFFER
  One who, or that which, stuffs.
• GORGELET
  A small gorget, as of a humming bird.
• GORGE
  A concave molding; a cavetto. Gwilt. (more info) abyss, whirlpool, prob. fr. L. gurgea whirlpool, gulf, abyss; cf. 1. The throat; the gullet; the canal by which food passes to the stomach. Wherewith he gripped her gorge with so great pain. Spenser.
• STUFFY
  1. Stout; mettlesome; resolute. Jamieson. 2. Angry and obstinate; sulky. 3. Ill-ventilated; close.
• STUFF
  A melted mass of turpentine, tallow, etc., with which the masts, sides, and bottom of a ship are smeared for lubrication. Ham. Nav. Encyc. 8. Paper stock ground ready for use. Note: When partly ground, called half stuff. Knight. Clear stuff. See
• SATIATE
  Filled to satiety; glutted; sated; -- followed by with or of. "Satiate of applause." Pope.
• REGORGE
  1. To vomit up; to eject from the stomach; to throw back. Hayward. 2. To swallow again; to swallow back. Tides at highest mark regorge the flood. DRyden.
• COUPE-GORGE
  Any position giving the enemy such advantage that the troops occupying it must either surrender or be cut to pieces. Farrow.
• DISGORGEMENT
  The act of disgorging; a vomiting; that which is disgorged. Bp. Hall.
• ENGORGE
  Etym: 1. To gorge; to glut. Mir. for Mag. 2. To swallow with greediness or in large quantities; to devour. Spenser.
• BREADSTUFF
  Grain, flour, or meal of which bread is made.
• DEMIGORGE
  Half the gorge, or entrance into a bastion, taken from the angle of the flank to the center of the bastion.
• INGORGE
  See MILTON
• ENGORGED
  Filled to excess with blood or other liquid; congested. (more info) 1. Swallowed with greediness, or in large draughts.
• UNSATIATE
  Insatiate. Dr. H. More.