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surfeit

/sur-fit/US // ˈsɜr fɪt //UK // (ˈsɜːfɪt) //

糜烂,泛滥成灾,糜烂的,过剩

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : excess; an excessive amount: a surfeit of speechmaking.
    • : excess or overindulgence in eating or drinking.
    • : an uncomfortably full or crapulous feeling due to excessive eating or drinking.
    • : general disgust caused by excess or satiety.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to bring to a state of surfeit by excess of food or drink.
    • : to supply with anything to excess or satiety; satiate.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to eat or drink to excess.
    • : to suffer from the effects of overindulgence in eating or drinking.
    • : to indulge to excess in anything.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • There are no wrenching epiphanies, just mild embarrassments and a surfeit of confusion.

  • The culture wars have presented us with a surfeit of either/ors.

  • They drank till from very surfeit they fell down stricken; and three hundred died, slain by the element of life.

  • Then the wild beasts hid in the thickets made of them a prey, and they who escaped this evil, perished from the poison of surfeit.

  • She would have preferred open, antagonistic originality, but she got a surfeit of clear, mirror-like peace.

  • People were no longer sickened by sloth and surfeit, or deformed and depleted by overwork and famine.

  • He smelt the Prince's breath, and swore that it stank of a surfeit of undigested Martellian verses.