CLOY meaning: Overwhelm with excessive sweetness, richness

We found 26 dictionaries that define the word CLOY:

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cloy: Merriam-Webster
cloy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
cloy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
cloy: Collins English Dictionary
cloy: Vocabulary.com
Cloy, cloy: Wordnik
cloy: Wiktionary
cloy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
cloy: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
cloy: Infoplease Dictionary
Cloy, cloy: Dictionary.com
cloy: Online Etymology Dictionary
Cloy: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
cloy: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
cloy: Rhymezone
Cloy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
cloy: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
cloy: FreeDictionary.org
cloy: Mnemonic Dictionary
cloy: TheFreeDictionary.com
cloy: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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cloy: Encyclopedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)

cloy, cloy: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
cloy: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (cloy)

▸ verb:  (transitive) To fill up or choke up; to stop up.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To clog, to glut, or satisfy, as the appetite; to satiate.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To fill to loathing; to surfeit.

Similar:

surfeit, pall, cloye, choke, accloy, choke up, clog up, chock, foul, cloom, more...

Opposite:

satiate, satiating, satiatingly

Types:

cloying, more...

Adjectives:

soonest, glen, nicest, voluminous, earthly, over, excess, ravenous, red

Colors:

rose, mauve, lavender, blush, peach, more...

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