surfeit

1. (countable) An excessive amount of something.Examples: "A surfeit of wheat is driving down the price."; "With what could be a surfeit of candour, [Mike] Skinner has described DJing as more creative than playing his own songs, because, to paraphrase, of the "stress" and "creativity" of not knowing what he'll be doing in three minutes' time."Synonyms: excess, glut, overabundance, superfluity, surplus, ugcountable

2. (uncountable) Overindulgence in either food or drink; overeating.Examples: "I feel too much thy blessing: make it [this excess]less, For fear I surfeit! Now comes the sick hour that his surfeit made."; "And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares."Synonyms: gluttony, overeating, overindulgenceuncountable

3. (countable) A sickness or condition caused by overindulgence.Examples: "King Henry I is said to have died of a surfeit of lampreys."; "the Leaves they do eat to prevent surfeit and other diseases that are incident to those that heat their blood by travels"countable

4. (countable) A group of skunks.countable

1. (transitive) To fill (something) to excess.Examples: "You are three men of sin, whom Destiny, That hath to instrument this lower world And what is in’t,—the never-surfeited sea Hath caused to belch up you;"; "If this surfeited sponge of speculation, this crammed commercial cormorant, wanted more than that for his daughter, why could he not say so without asking disgusting questions such as these […]?"Synonyms: stufftransitive

2. (transitive) To feed (someone) to excess (on, upon or with something).Examples: "She surfeited her children on sweets."; "[…] ev’n the wholsomest Meats may be surfeited on, and there is nothing more unhealthy, than to feed very well, and do but very little Exercise."; "To the door of this, the twelfth house whose bell he had rung, came a housekeeper who made him think of an unwholesome, surfeited worm that had eaten its nut to a hollow shell and now sought to fill the vacancy with edible lodgers."Synonyms: glut, overfeed, stufftransitive

3. (transitive) To make (someone) sick as a result of overconsumption.Examples: "[…] that proportion of meat surfetteth, and surchargeth the stomacks of some, which is not enough to satisfie the hunger of others,"; "[…] I imagine him poisoned by his wines, or surfeited by a favourite dish;"transitive

4. (transitive, figurative) To supply (someone) with something to excess; to disgust (someone) through overabundance.Examples: "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, While some glad Rival in her Arms did lye, Glutted with Love and surfeited with Joy."; "[…] he shan’t shut me up in this dismal castle, and nauseate me with his surfeiting fondness:"; "[…] I suppose his majesty thought we had enough of it on the field, and did not wish to surfeit us with glory."Synonyms: cloy, glutfigurativelytransitive

5. (transitive) To satisfy (someone's appetite) to excess (both literally and figuratively).Examples: "[…] his appetite for vulgar praise had not yet been surfeited;"; "Every one has had the experience of being served with more food than can be eaten with relish and without waste. The effect is to surfeit the appetite and to limit the variety which a patron may have,"Synonyms: gluttransitive

6. (intransitive, reflexive) To overeat or feed to excess (on or upon something).Examples: "And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares."; "Millions of people were starving, while the oligarchs and their supporters were surfeiting on the surplus."; "Those who do not surfeit themselves do not weary quickly of any particular article of diet."Synonyms: glut, indulge, overfeed, overindulgeintransitivereflexive