Crossword-Solution: SURFEIT
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Surfeit | n. | Excess in eating and drinking. |
| Surfeit | n. | Fullness and oppression of the system, occasioned often by excessive eating and drinking. |
| Surfeit | n. | Disgust caused by excess; satiety. |
| Surfeit | v. i. | To load the stomach with food, so that sickness or uneasiness ensues; to eat to excess. |
| Surfeit | v. i. | To indulge to satiety in any gratification. |
| Surfeit | v. t. | 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. |
| Surfeit | v. t. | To fill to satiety and disgust; to cloy; as, he surfeits us with compliments. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| SURFEIT | anagram | FUSTIER |
We have 38 clues for the answer “SURFEIT”
| Clue | Answers |
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| the state of being more than full | 1 answer |
| Glut, excess | 1 answer |
| Immoderate amount | 2 answers |
| Excessive amount | 4 answers |
| Satiety | 4 answers |
| AN UNDESIRABLE OVERABUNDANCE | 10 answers |
| Overfeed | 10 answers |
| make a beast of oneself | 12 answers |
| plenteousness | 14 answers |
| cloy | 14 answers |
| Satiate. | 18 answers |
| Pall | 21 answers |
| nimiety | 22 answers |
| repletion | 23 answers |
| overstock | 23 answers |
| submersion | 24 answers |
| Over-supply | 28 answers |
| Superabundance | 28 answers |
| Over-indulgence | 31 answers |
| superfluity | 32 answers |
| Overabundance | 33 answers |
| overmuch | 34 answers |
| More than enough | 35 answers |
| plethora | 35 answers |
| redundancy | 36 answers |
| saturation | 37 answers |
| Too much | 41 answers |
| Load. | 45 answers |
| Sate | 45 answers |
| overproduction | 47 answers |
| Remainder | 47 answers |
| overkill | 48 answers |
| Glut | 51 answers |
| Overflow | 54 answers |
| abundance | 57 answers |
| flood | 62 answers |
| Surplus | 63 answers |
| Excess | 69 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
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Sentences with SURFEIT (5)
Prince John, indeed, and those who courted his pleasure by imitating his foibles, were apt to indulge to excess in the pleasures of the trencher and the goblet; and indeed it is well known that his death was occasioned by a surfeit upon peaches and new ale.
The preface to this romantic evening was substantial and prosaic: four times during dinner was he copiously replenished with hash, which occasioned so rich a surfeit within him that, upon the conclusion of the meal, he found himself in no condition to retort appropriately to a solicitous warning from Cora to keep away from the cat.
Wherefore, to end as I began, my advice is, that we quietly withdraw ourselves, not offering any further force, or forcible attempts, upon the castle, at least at this time; and let us set on foot our new project, and let us see if that will not make them destroy themselves.’ This advice was highly applauded by them all, and was accounted the very masterpiece of hell, namely, to choke Mansoul with a fulness of this world, and to surfeit her heart with the good things thereof.
How charming is divine Philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectared sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns.
Here, in cozy darkness, he placidly insulted his liver with jaw-breaker upon jaw-breaker from the paper sack, and in a surfeit of content watched the silent actors on the screen.
Quotes with SURFEIT (3)
To the untutored sage, the concentration of population was the prolific mother of all evils, moral no less than physical. He argued that food is good, while surfeit kills; that love is good, but lust destroys; and not less dreaded than the pestilence following upon crowded and unsanitary dwellings was the loss of spiritual power inseparable from too close contact with one's fellow-men.
There's a kid or some kids somewhere. I'll never know them. They're particle-puzzle-cubing right now. They might be mini-misanthropes from Moosefart, Montana. They might be demi-dystopians from Dogdick, Delaware. They dig my demonic dramas. The metaphysic maims them. They grasp the gravity. They'll duke it out with their demons. They'll serve a surfeit of survival skills. They won't be chronologically crucified. They'll shore up my shit. They'll radically revise it. They'll pass it along.
From surfeit to loss is a short line.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday, NYT, WSJ.
Used 6 times in crossword archives (2003–2024).