cloy

动词 v.
中文释义
美 /klɔɪ/

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To fill up or choke up; to stop up. transitive
  2. To clog, to glut, or satisfy, as the appetite; to satiate. transitive
  3. To fill to loathing; to surfeit. transitive
    — Now all this was very fine, but not at all in keeping with the Celebrity's character as I had come to conceive it. The idea that adulation ever cloyed on him was ludicrous in itself. In fact I thought the whole story fishy, and came very near to saying so.

词形变化

cloys present,singular,third-person cloying participle,present cloyed participle,past cloyed past

词汇关系

衍生词
cloyer cloyless cloyment cloysome overcloy
相关词
clove

词源

From an aphetic form of Middle English acloyen, from Old French enclouer, encloer, from Vulgar Latin *inclāvāre, from Late Latin clāvāre, from Latin clāvus.
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