cloy
klaw i
- v supply or feed to surfeit
- v cause surfeit through excess though initially pleasing
Too much spicy food cloyed his appetite
- Reichl's acute self-satisfaction can, at times, cloy to the point where you're tempted to grab her by that lustrous mane and whirl her into Alice Waters's wood-burning pizza oven.
- Like many of its predecessors, the penultimate chapter is filled with a sense of tenderness, of gratitude for the gift of life -- a mood that doesn't cloy because it is accompanied .
- It is obviously not shared by the Colombian novelist Gabriel Garca Mrquez, who has created in "One Hundred Years of Solitude" an enchanted place that does everything but cloy.