Tag: Surfeit

• Adjective: Surfeit
  
  1. an overabundant supply : excess
  2. an intemperate or immoderate indulgence in something (such as food or drink)
  3. disgust caused by excess
• Synonyms:
  1. bellyful
  2. excess
  3. fat
  4. overabundance
  5. overage
  6. overflow
  7. overkill
  8. overmuch
  9. overplus
  10. oversupply
  11. plethora
  12. plus
  13. redundancy
  14. superabundance
  15. superfluity
  16. surplus
  17. surplusage
• Usage:
  1. “I trembled to think of the ruined purses this day’s performances might result in. I could not help reflecting bodingly upon the intemperate zeal with which middle-aged men are apt to surfeit themselves upon a seductive folly which they have tasted for the first time. ”
• Encountered:
  1. While reading Mark Twain’s The Innocents Abroad.

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