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cloying Definition


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cloy
verb cloyed, cloying
    intr
    1. To become distasteful through excess, especially of sweetness.
    2. To satiate to the point of disgust.
      Thesaurus: glut, satiate, choke, gorge, sate, overindulge, surfeit; Antonym: whet.
Derivative: cloying
adj
    Etymology: 16c in this sense: variant of earlier acloy, originally meaning ‘to nail', from Latin clavus nail.



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