SURFEIT

repletion, surfeit

(noun) eating until excessively full

glut, oversupply, surfeit

(noun) the quality of being so overabundant that prices fall

surfeit, excess, overabundance

(noun) the state of being more than full

surfeit

(verb) indulge (one’s appetite) to satiety

surfeit, cloy

(verb) supply or feed to surfeit

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

surfeit (countable and uncountable, plural surfeits)

(countable) An excessive amount of something.

(uncountable) Overindulgence in either food or drink; overeating.

(countable) A sickness or condition caused by overindulgence.

Disgust caused by excess; satiety.

Synonyms

• (excessive amount of something): excess, glut, overabundance, superfluity, surplus, ug

• (overindulgence in food or drink): gluttony, overeating, overindulgence

• (disgust caused by excess): nausea

Verb

surfeit (third-person singular simple present surfeits, present participle surfeiting, simple past and past participle surfeited)

(transitive) To fill (something) to excess.

Synonym: stuff

(transitive) To feed (someone) to excess (on, upon or with something).

Synonyms: glut, overfeed, stuff

(transitive) To make (someone) sick as a result of overconsumption.

(transitive, figurative) To supply (someone) with something to excess; to disgust (someone) through overabundance.

Synonyms: cloy, glut

(transitive) To satisfy (someone's appetite) to excess (both literally and figuratively).

Synonym: glut

(intransitive, reflexive) To overeat or feed to excess (on or upon something).

Synonyms: glut, indulge, overfeed, overindulge

(intransitive, reflexive, figurative) To indulge (in something) to excess.

(intransitive, reflexive) To become sick from overindulgence (both literally and figuratively).

Anagrams

• fustier

Source: Wiktionary

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Sur"feit, n. Etym: [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. Piers Plowman. Now comes the sick hour that his surfeit made. Shak.

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. Bunyan.

3. Disgust caused by excess; satiety. Sir P. Sidney. Matter and argument have been supplied abundantly, and even to surfeit. Burke.

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. Shak.

2. To indulge to satiety in any gratification.

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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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