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Meaning of overcloy | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B2

Definitions

To fill beyond satiety.

dated, transitive

Examples

“A sort of vagabonds, rascals, and runaways, / A scum of Bretons, and base lackey peasants, / Whom their o'er-cloyed country vomits forth / To desperate ventures and assured destruction.”
“He neuer pleaſd his fathers eyes till now, / Nor fild my hart with ouer cloying ioyes.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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