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surfeited

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

糜烂的,受宠若惊,澎湃的,糜烂

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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.

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Examples

  • Having finished his meal the great beast, surfeited with food, slowly moved off into the jungle.

  • He went towards them; the blood flushed up in his face, he felt almost surfeited by some sweet emotion.

  • The next morning we made Kurrimao, which has a shore-line strikingly picturesque in a land almost surfeited with the picturesque.

  • Then, surfeited with slaughter, they turned to plunder the abandoned camp; otherwise there would have been escape for few.

  • In short, the whole subject is so curious, so strange that the investigator of these mysteries is never surfeited.