SURFEIT
\sˈɜːfɪt], \sˈɜːfɪt], \s_ˈɜː_f_ɪ_t]\
Definitions of SURFEIT
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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By Princeton University
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Excess in eating and drinking.
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Fullness and oppression of the system, occasioned often by excessive eating and drinking.
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Disgust caused by excess; satiety.
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To load the stomach with food, so that sickness or uneasiness ensues; to eat to excess.
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To indulge to satiety in any gratification.
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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.
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To fill to satiety and disgust; to cloy; as, he surfeits us with compliments.
By Oddity Software
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Excess, especially in eating or drinking; fulness or sickness caused by such excess.
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To feed to excess; cloy.
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To partake of food, or indulge in anything, to excess.
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Surfeiter.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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To fill to satiety and disgust.
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Excess in eating and drinking: sickness or satiety caused by over-fullness.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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Acrasia, Colica crapulosa
By Robley Dunglison
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