Cloy
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /klɔɪ/ · Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Cloy is a verb meaning (transitive) To fill up or choke up; to stop up.
Meaning
(transitive) To fill up or choke up; to stop up.
More Meanings
- (transitive) To clog, to glut, or satisfy, as the appetite; to satiate.
- (transitive) To fill to loathing; to surfeit.
Example Sentences
Now all this was very fine, but not at all in keeping with the Celebrity's character as I had come to conceive it. The idea that adulation ever cloyed on him was ludicrous in itself. In fact I thought the whole story fishy, and came very near to saying so.
Word Forms
- cloys
- cloying
- cloyed
Synonyms for cloy
Depending on context, synonyms include block, choke, fill, fill up, stuff, stuff up.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include surfeit, pall, satiate, soonest, cloye, choke.
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