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Antonyms for cloyed

Grammar : Verb
Spell : kloi
Phonetic Transcription : klɔɪ

Definition of cloyed

Origin :
  • "weary by too much, fill to loathing, surfeit," 1520s, from Middle English cloyen "hinder movement, encumber" (late 14c.), a shortening of accloyen (early 14c.), from Old French encloer "to fasten with a nail, grip, grasp," figuratively "to hinder, check, stop, curb," from Late Latin inclavare "drive a nail into a horse's foot when shoeing," from Latin clavus "a nail" (see slot (n.2)).
  • Accloye is a hurt that cometh of shooing, when a Smith driveth a nail in the quick, which make him to halt. [Edward Topsell, "The History of Four-footed Beasts," 1607]
  • The figurative meaning "fill to a satiety, overfill" is attested for accloy from late 14c. Related: Cloyed; cloying.
  • verb overfill
Example sentences :
  • And so she had wearied him, who saw in her no more than a sweet loveliness that had cloyed him presently.
  • Extract from : « The Lion's Skin » by Rafael Sabatini
  • The idea that adulation ever cloyed on him was ludicrous in itself.
  • Extract from : « The Celebrity, Complete » by Winston Churchill
  • This cloyed her, and now she does not take sugar in her tea.
  • Extract from : « The Funny Side of Physic » by A. D. Crabtre
  • Their senses, cloyed by grief, knew that whatever it was of ill-omen, it could not touch them now.
  • Extract from : « Trusia » by Davis Brinton
  • I've been cloyed on house air and oratory and future greatness.
  • Extract from : « A Man for the Ages » by Irving Bacheller
  • At all events there is novelty in being an object of disgust to any man, just when Worcester has so cloyed me with sweets!
  • Extract from : « The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson, Volumes One and Two » by Harriette Wilson
  • There was no piquancy left in anything; all had palled and staled on their cloyed palates.
  • Extract from : « The Man Who Pleases and the Woman Who Charms » by John A. Cone
  • But I am not so apt to be cloyed with study, or reflection, as formerly.
  • Extract from : « Vegetable Diet: As Sanctioned by Medical Men, and by Experience in All Ages » by William Andrus Alcott
  • Mrs. Williams could not endure the smell of fish; they had been cloyed on small game, and were surfeited on venison.
  • Extract from : « Woodcraft and Camping » by George Washington Sears (Nessmuk)
  • His was a nature which liked to gloat over a goal on the horizon He cared not a whit for sweet girls; they cloyed.
  • Extract from : « The Crisis, Complete » by Winston Churchill

Synonyms for cloyed

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