name
Meaning 1
A male given name.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
cloy
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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General-American: /klɔɪ/
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rhymes with -ɔɪ
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CMU ARPABET: K L OY1 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
verb
Meaning 2
To fill up or choke up; to stop up.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 3
To clog, to glut, or satisfy, as the appetite; to satiate.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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Synonyms: none provided
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verb
Meaning 4
To fill to loathing; to surfeit.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
Meaning 5
cause surfeit through excess though initially pleasing
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- Too much spicy food cloyed his appetite
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: pall
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: satiate, sate, replete, fill
verb
Meaning 6
supply or feed to surfeit
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: surfeit
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: supply, provide, render, furnish
History
Etymology
From an aphetic form of Middle English acloyen, from Old French enclouer, encloer, from Vulgar Latin *inclāvāre, from Late Latin clāvāre, from Latin clāvus.
Across languages
Translations
27 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: пресищам се (presištam se) — fill up
- Czech: vyplnit — fill up
- Czech: přeplnit — fill up
- Czech: ucpat — fill up
- Dutch: opvullen — fill up
- Dutch: volstoppen — fill up
- Dutch: vullen — fill up
- Scottish Gaelic: sàsaich — fill up
- Serbo-Croatian: presititi — fill up
- Bulgarian: пресищам се (presištam se) — satiate
- Czech: nasytit — satiate
- Czech: přesytit — satiate
- Dutch: verzadigen — satiate
- Dutch: vervullen — satiate
- Romanian: sătura — satiate
- Russian: пресыщать (presyščatʹ) — satiate
- Scottish Gaelic: sàsaich — satiate
- Serbo-Croatian: nasititi — satiate
- Bulgarian: втръсвам се (vtrǎsvam se) — fill to loathing
- Catalan: embafar — fill to loathing
- Czech: přesytit — fill to loathing
- Dutch: oververzadigen — fill to loathing
- Dutch: volstoppen — fill to loathing
- Serbo-Croatian: presititi — fill to loathing
- Serbo-Croatian: pretrpati — fill to loathing
- Spanish: hartar — fill to loathing
- Spanish: empalagar — fill to loathing