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Meanings of cloy in anglès

Supply or feed to surfeit.

        Cause surfeit through excess though initially pleasing.

              Synonyms
              Examples for "pall"
              Examples for "pall"
              1
              A pall of corruption hangs over several countries, seemingly impossible to diminish.
              Reuters
              2
              A pall of dense cloud, many miles in thickness, enfolds the earth.
              Ragnarok : the Age of Fire and Gravel
              3
              There was a coffin in the boat, covered with a simple pall.
              The Nameless Castle
              4
              The pall-bearers having deposited their charge in front of the pulpit, Rev.
              The Story of My Life / Being Reminiscences of Sixty Years' Publi...
              5
              The silence in the room was deathly, the heat intense, heavy, pall-like.
              The Lamp in the Desert
              Usage of cloy in anglès
              1
              It does not cloy the palate, but rather seductively stimulates the appetite.
              The Confessions of a Beachcomber
              2
              The cloy of her perfume carried though to him in the front.
              The Irish Times
              3
              Cold veal pie, when you don't feel hungry, is apt to cloy.
              Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog)
              4
              With it I can even gather honey that does not cloy.
              Nature's Serial Story
              5
              Dread and revulsion and alien emotions cling to us and cloy our movements.
              Perdido Street Station
              6
              The night wind came whispering in, cutting through the cloy of the spilled perfume.
              The Demolished Man
              7
              We cloy of the honey of each peculiar greatness.
              Representative Men: Seven Lectures
              8
              This song of sacred joy That never seems to cloy, May Jesus Christ be praised!
              Radio NZ
              9
              All the rich devices of rhyme and tone-color must heighten and not cloy the singing quality.
              A Study of Poetry
              10
              How should it cloy with length of use?
              Hemlock Grove
              11
              In transports pure the moments cannot cloy-
              Idle Hour Stories
              12
              The artificial bouquet was beginning to cloy.
              Bare Bones
              13
              Not that she found kisses were not sweet, but that she feared with repetition they would cloy.
              When God Laughs, and Other Stories
              14
              The benefits of Civilization cloy me.
              Trivia
              15
              Sweet things cloy, tonics are bitter.
              Primitive Love and Love-Stories
              16
              No time can cloy them.
              Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. John Chapters I to XIV
              About this term
              Cloy through the time