Surfeit

[Sur·feit]

Steve baked a surfeit of jam tarts. Steve ate a surfeit of jam tarts. Steve surfeited himself on jam tarts. Whether surfeit is a noun or a verb (as in "overabundance" or "gorge"), Steve is likely to end up with a bellyache.

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Excess in eating and drinking.

Noun
eating until excessively full

Noun
the quality of being so overabundant that prices fall

Noun
the state of being more than full

Verb
indulge (one''s appetite) to satiety

Verb
supply or feed to surfeit

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n.
Excess in eating and drinking.

n.
Fullness and oppression of the system, occasioned often by excessive eating and drinking.

n.
Disgust caused by excess; satiety.

v. i.
To load the stomach with food, so that sickness or uneasiness ensues; to eat to excess.

v. i.
To indulge to satiety in any gratification.

v. t.
To feed so as to oppress the stomach and derange the function of the system; to overfeed, and produce satiety, sickness, or uneasiness; -- often reflexive; as, to surfeit one's self with sweets.

v. t.
To fill to satiety and disgust; to cloy; as, he surfeits us with compliments.

Surfeit

Sur"feit , n. [OE. surfet, OF. surfait, sorfait, excess, arrogance, crime, fr. surfaire, sorfaire, to augment, exaggerate, F. surfaire to overcharge; sur over + faire to make, do, L. facere. See Sur-, and Fact.] 1. Excess in eating and drinking.
Let not Sir Surfeit sit at thy board.
Now comes the sick hour that his surfeit made.
2. Fullness and oppression of the system, occasioned often by excessive eating and drinking.
To prevent surfeit and other diseases that are incident to those that heat their blood by travels.
3. Disgust caused by excess; satiety. Sir P. Sidney.
Matter and argument have been supplied abundantly, and even to surfeit.

Surfeit

Sur"feit, v. i. 1. To load the stomach with food, so that sickness or uneasiness ensues; to eat to excess.
They are as sick that surfeit with too much as they that starve with nothing.
2. To indulge to satiety in any gratification.

Surfeit

Sur"feit, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Surfeited; p. pr. & vb. n. Surfeiting.] 1. To feed so as to oppress the stomach and derange the function of the system; to overfeed, and produce satiety, sickness, or uneasiness; -- often reflexive; as, to surfeit one's self with sweets. 2. To fill to satiety and disgust; to cloy; as, he surfeits us with compliments. V. Knox.

Excess in eating and drinking.

To load the stomach with food, so that sickness or uneasiness ensues; to eat to excess.

To feed so as to oppress the stomach and derange the function of the system; to overfeed, and produce satiety, sickness, or uneasiness; -- often reflexive; as, to surfeit one's self with sweets.

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Usage Examples

God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.

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