cloy

Meaning

Verb

• To fill up or choke up; to stop up.
• To clog, to glut, or satisfy, as the appetite; to satiate.
• To fill to loathing; to surfeit.

Related

Similar words

• block, block up, choke, fill, fill up, stop up, stuff, stuff up
• fill up, glut, gorge, sate, satiate, satisfy, stodge, stuff, stuff up
• jade, nauseate, pall, sicken, surfeit

Origin

• From an aphetic form of Middle English acloyen, from Old French enclouer, encloer, from Vulgar Latin *inclāvāre, from Late Latin clāvāre, present active infinitive of clāvō, from Latin clāvus.