n. | 1. | Excess in eating and drinking. |
2. | Fullness and oppression of the system, occasioned often by excessive eating and drinking. | |
3. | Disgust caused by excess; satiety. | |
v. i. | 1. | To load the stomach with food, so that sickness or uneasiness ensues; to eat to excess. |
2. | To indulge to satiety in any gratification. | |
v. t. | 1. | 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; |
2. | To fill to satiety and disgust; to cloy; |
Noun | 1. | surfeit - the state of being more than full Synonyms: overabundance, excess |
2. | surfeit - the quality of being so overabundant that prices fall Synonyms: glut, oversupply | |
3. | surfeit - eating until excessively full Synonyms: repletion | |
Verb | 1. | surfeit - supply or feed to surfeit Synonyms: cloy |
2. | surfeit - indulge (one's appetite) to satiety |