Surfeit is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SURFEIT in dictionary:

VERB:
• to indulge in excess
• cause (someone) to desire no more of something as a result of having consumed or done it to excess
• consume too much of something
• To load the stomach with food, so that sickness or uneasiness ensues; to eat to excess.
• To indulge to satiety in any gratification.
• 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.
• To fill to satiety and disgust; to cloy; as, he surfeits us with compliments.
• supply or feed to surfeit
• indulge (one\'s appetite) to satiety
• supply or feed excessively
NOUN:
• an excessive amount of something
• an illness caused or regarded as being caused by excessive eating or drinking
• Excess in eating and drinking.
• Fullness and oppression of the system, occasioned often by excessive eating and drinking.
• Disgust caused by excess; satiety.
• the state of being more than full
• the quality of being so overabundant that prices fall
• eating until excessively full
• excessive amount
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to supply to excess

Words related to SURFEIT

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Words that contain SURFEIT

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How to use SURFEIT in a sentence

• After my long surfeit of warders and convicts the mere sight of ordinarily-dressed human beings laughing and talking filled me with the most intense satisfaction.
• Every faculty but the sight is starved, and that has a surfeit.
• One is constantly passing through new channels, past new islands, opening up new points of interest, until finally a surfeit of the grand and magnificent in nature is reached.
• He has taken a surfeit of popularity, and is not contented to delight, unless he can shock the public.
• I must also say that he who feels and lives thus does not get a surfeit of happiness.
• But while he is away the surfeit of his wealth will go to unjust men and to men whose beards are unclean and who fear not God.
• I was precious near tired out now, from want of sleep and a surfeit of marching.
• The season has given them more than a surfeit of both, and so they have fallen back upon theatricals.
• There was a surfeit of killing, and a waning Revolution.
• He had his surfeit of shocks during his first years of service and after that accepted any occurrence, no matter how weird, as matter-of-fact.
• But such a surfeit, instead of increasing the enjoyment, makes them miserable.
• It is a surfeit of romance, an inexhaustible hoard of the matter of marvel.
• Its qualities are as innocent as they are grateful, and the fruit may be eaten in any moderate quantity without danger of surfeit, or other injurious effects.
• At other times they arise from some internal corporeal cause, as from abundance or weakness of nature, or even from surfeit of meat or drink.
• Then he was his own master, free to lead a life of wild dissipation, and indeed he worked very hard to get a surfeit of enjoyment.
• Our English King John died at Swinestead Abbey from a surfeit of peaches, and new ale.
• You get a surfeit of damp, earthy smell in your nostrils, a choking sensation in your throat, for the place is suffocating.
• I had felt so sure that some months of honeymoon would prove a surfeit and restore you to reason.
• When the dance is over, and the bells quiet, there is neither surfeit nor exhaustion.
• Perhaps it was taken as a surfeit dish at the end of a meal.
• Such women receive a surfeit of admiration, but little love.
• And yet, for aught I see, they are as sick that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing.
• He had long since had a surfeit of these semi-Platonic affinities.
• Enough has now been said to show that troubadour lyric poetry, regarded as literature, would soon produce a surfeit, if read in bulk.
• Only soundness and loveliness of nature, inborn, undestroyable, could have withstood such luxury, indulgence, surfeit as she had always known.
• So I lay supine upon the water, closed my eyes, and derived a surfeit of joy from this rest after fatigue.
• The value of food to the human organism is not measured by the pains of an occasional surfeit, but by the effect of its entire deprivation.
• Skenedonk, coming and going at his caprice, stayed a month in every year at Longmeadow, where the townspeople, having had a surfeit of aboriginal names, called him John.
• In short, at the beginning of the year 1862, there was rather a surfeit than any scarcity of arms all over the South.
• There has been such a surfeit of lecturing, the people are tired of it.
• Walraven had had a surfeit of Europe, and Washington, this sparkling winter weather, was at its gayest and best.
• Anyway, to be older and ageder is not a surfeit nor a suction, it is not dated and careful, it is not dirty.

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