Cloy

//klɔɪ//

Synonyms for "cloy" (47 found)

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More general

9 entries

Synonyms

4 entries

Related terms

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derived

5 entries

manner of

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related to

10 entries

Translations

27 translations across 9 languages.

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Bulgarian

3 entries
  • втръсвам се verb (fill to loathing)
  • пресищам се verb (fill up)
  • пресищам се verb (satiate)

Catalan

1 entries
  • embafar verb (fill to loathing)

Czech

4 entries
  • nasytit verb (satiate)
  • přeplnit verb (fill up)
  • přesytit verb (satiate)
  • přesytit verb (fill to loathing)

Dutch

4 entries
  • opvullen verb (fill up)
  • oververzadigen verb (fill to loathing)
  • vervullen verb (satiate)
  • verzadigen verb (satiate)

Romanian

1 entries
  • sătura verb (satiate)

Russian

1 entries
  • пресыщать verb (satiate)

Scottish Gaelic

2 entries
  • sàsaich verb (fill up)
  • sàsaich verb (satiate)

Serbo-Croatian

4 entries
  • nasititi verb (satiate)
  • presititi verb (fill up)
  • presititi verb (fill to loathing)
  • pretrpati verb (fill to loathing)

Spanish

2 entries
  • empalagar verb (fill to loathing)
  • hartar verb (fill to loathing)

Sample sentences

3 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

"Not so; though glory wait not on the act; / though poor the praise, and barren be the gain, / vengeance on feeble woman to exact, / yet praised hereafter shall his name remain, / who purges earth of such a monstrous stain. / Sweet is the passion of vindictive joy, / sweet is the punishment, where just the pain, / sweet the fierce ardour of revenge to cloy, / and slake with Dardan blood the funeral flames of Troy."

Source: tatoeba (6854953)

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.

Source: wiktionary

The third Iraq veteran -- 23-year-old Cloy Richards of Salem, Missouri, who was wounded in combat -- will avoid losing his disability benefits after agreeing not to wear his uniform at future protests, the Marine Corps said.

Source: wiktionary

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