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[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
surfeit \sur"feit\, n. oe. surfet, of. surfait, sorfait,
   excess, arrogance, crime, fr. surfaire, sorfaire, to augment,
   exaggerate, f. surfaire to overcharge; sur over + faire to
   make, do, l. facere. see sur-, and fact.
   1. excess in eating and drinking.
      1913 webster

            let not sir surfeit sit at thy board. --piers
                                                  plowman.
      1913 webster

            now comes the sick hour that his surfeit made.
                                                  --shak.
      1913 webster

   2. fullness and oppression of the system, occasioned often by
      excessive eating and drinking.
      1913 webster

            to prevent surfeit and other diseases that are
            incident to those that heat their blood by travels.
                                                  --bunyan.
      1913 webster

   3. disgust caused by excess; satiety. --sir p. sidney.
      1913 webster

            matter and argument have been supplied abundantly,
            and even to surfeit.                  --burke.
      1913 webster
see also:
sur- fact 
[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
surfeit \sur"feit\, v. i.
   1. to load the stomach with food, so that sickness or
      uneasiness ensues; to eat to excess.
      1913 webster

            they are as sick that surfeit with too much as they
            that starve with nothing.             --shak.
      1913 webster

   2. to indulge to satiety in any gratification.
      1913 webster

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
surfeit \sur"feit\, v. t. imp.  p. p. surfeited; p. pr. 
   vb. n. surfeiting.
   1. 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.
      1913 webster

   2. to fill to satiety and disgust; to cloy; as, he surfeits
      us with compliments. --v. knox.
      1913 webster
see also:
surfeited surfeiting 
[4] : WordNet (r) 2.0
surfeit
     n 1: the state of being more than full syn: excess, overabundance
     2: the quality of being so overabundant that prices fall syn:
        glut, oversupply
     3: eating until excessively full syn: repletion
     v 1: supply or feed to surfeit syn: cloy
     2: indulge one's appetite to satiety
see also:
excess overabundance glut oversupply repletion cloy 

[5] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
97 moby thesaurus words for "surfeit":
   allay, amplitude, bellyful, brim, charge, chock, choke, cloy,
   congest, congestion, cram, crowd, deluge, drench, engorge,
   engorgement, excess, fill, fill to overflowing, fill up, flood,
   flood tide, freight, full, fullness, glut, gluttonize, gorge,
   high tide, high water, hyperemia, impletion, jade, jam, jam-pack,
   lade, load, more than enough, nimiety, overabundance, overbrimming,
   overburden, overcharge, overdose, overfeed, overfill, overflow,
   overfreight, overfullness, overgorge, overindulge, overkill,
   overlade, overload, overmuch, overplus, oversaturate, overspill,
   overstuff, oversupply, overweight, pack, pad, pall, plenitude,
   plethora, ram in, repletion, sate, satiate, satiation, satiety,
   satisfaction, satisfy, saturate, saturatedness, saturation,
   saturation point, skinful, slake, snootful, soak, spring tide,
   stall, stodge, stuff, superabundance, supercharge, superfluity,
   supersaturate, supersaturation, surcharge, surplus, surplusage,
   top off, wad, weight





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