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cloyed

/kloi/US // klɔɪ //UK // (klɔɪ) //

雇佣化,雇佣,雇佣的,雇佣人员

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to weary by an excess of food, sweetness, pleasure, etc.; surfeit; satiate.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to become uninteresting or distasteful through overabundance: A diet of cake and candy soon cloys.

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Examples

  • Over-sentimental and apt to cloy, it is eminently poetical and full of melody.

  • The sweets of that sort of thing began to cloy, and I resolved upon immediate action.

  • He feasted upon it to satiety as he did with everything else; never having learned not to cloy his appetite by over-feeding.

  • The natural result of all which was that I approached the story prepared for the stickiest of American cloy-fiction.

  • They cloy the ear, and the mind that has been made sensitive, desiring something of a finer type of stimulation.