surfeit

== English == === Etymology === From Middle English surfeite, surfet, a borrowing from Anglo-Norman surfet, surfeit and Old French sorfet, sorfait, past participle of surfaire (“to augment, exaggerate, exceed”), from sur- (“over”) + faire (“to do”). The adjective is derived from the noun. === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈsɜː.fɪt/ (General American) IPA(key): /ˈsɝː.fɪt/ Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)fɪt === Adjective === surfeit (comparative more surfeit, superlative most surfeit) (archaic) Sated; surfeited; filled. [from 16th c.] === Noun === surfeit (countable and uncountable, plural surfeits) (countable) An excessive amount of something. (uncountable) Overindulgence in either food or drink; overeating. (countable) A sickness or condition caused by overindulgence. Disgust caused by excess; satiety. (countable) A group of skunks. ==== Synonyms ==== (excessive amount of something): excess, glut, overabundance, superfluity, surplus, ug (overindulgence in food or drink): gluttony, overeating, overindulgence (disgust caused by excess): nausea ==== Derived terms ==== surfeit water ==== Translations ==== === Verb === surfeit (third-person singular simple present surfeits, present participle surfeiting, simple past and past participle surfeited) (transitive) To fill (something) to excess. Synonym: stuff (transitive) To feed (someone) to excess (on, upon or with something). Synonyms: glut, overfeed, stuff (transitive) To make (someone) sick as a result of overconsumption. (transitive, figurative) To supply (someone) with something to excess; to disgust (someone) through overabundance. Synonyms: cloy, glut 1697, Aphra Behn, “On an ungrateful and undeserving Mistress, whom he cou’d not help Loving” in Poems upon Several Occasions, London: Francis Saunders, p. 50,[8] While some glad Rival in her Arms did lye, Glutted with Love and surfeited with Joy. (transitive, sometimes figurative) To satisfy (someone's appetite) to excess. Synonym: glut (intransitive, reflexive) To overeat or feed to excess (on or upon something). Synonyms: glut, indulge, overfeed, overindulge (intransitive, reflexive, figurative) To indulge (in something) to excess. (intransitive, reflexive, sometimes figurative) To become sick from overindulgence. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Related terms === surfeiting surfeitly surfeitness surfeitous === Further reading === “surfeit”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “surfeit”, in The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC. “surfeit”, in OneLook Dictionary Search. “surfeit, adj.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000. === Anagrams === fustier