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surfeitnoun the state or an instance of going beyond what is usual, proper, or neededended up with a surfeit of volunteers who simply got in each other's way bellyful, excess, fat, overabundance, overage, overflow, overkill, overmuch, overplus, oversupply, plethora, plus, redundancy, superabundance, superfluity, surplus, surplusage abundance, bounty, plentitude, plenty, profusion, sufficiencyoverproduction, overstock deficiency, deficit, insufficiency, undersupply dearth, lack, scarcity, want surfeitverbto fill with food to capacityhaving surfeited ourselves on raw oysters, we had to decline the rest of the restaurant's offerings cram, glut, gorge, sate, stuff gobble, gormandize, pig outgulp, guzzlecloy, fillbanquet, feast, regale diet, fast v.satiate, sate, surfeit, cloy, pall, glut, gorge mean to fill to repletion.satiate and sate may sometimes imply only complete satisfaction but more often suggest repletion that has destroyed interest or desire.years of globe-trotting had satiated their interest in travel readers were sated with sensationalistic stories surfeit implies a nauseating repletion.surfeited themselves with junk food cloy stresses the disgust or boredom resulting from such surfeiting.sentimental pictures that cloy after a while pall emphasizes the loss of ability to stimulate interest or appetite.a life of leisure eventually begins to pall glut implies excess in feeding or supplying.a market glutted with diet books gorge suggests glutting to the point of bursting or choking.gorged themselves with chocolate in the 14th century |