Friday, September 26, 2008

SURFEIT

an overabundant supply

excess

to feed or supply to excess

/the state of being more than full

the quality of being so overabundant that prices fall
SYN - glut, oversupply

eating until excessively full
SYN - repletion

VERB - supply or feed to surfeit
SYN - cloy

Indulge (one's appetite) to satiety

"The debate now was a much better debate to be having - not how to deal with the huge debt, but how to use their surfeit."

"this surfeit was a nasty habit he had gotten from childhood when his parents told him that he couldn't leave until he cleared his plate."

"Because of her surfiet of water to the plants, she had killed them."

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