Cloy vs. Sate — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Cloy and Sate
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Cloy
To cause distaste or disgust by supplying with too much of something originally pleasant, especially something rich or sweet; surfeit.
Sate
Satisfy (a desire or an appetite) to the full
Sate your appetite at the resort's restaurant
Cloy
To be too filling, rich, or sweet.
Sate
Archaic spelling of sat
Cloy
(transitive) To fill up or choke up; to stop up.
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Sate
To satisfy (an appetite) fully.
Cloy
(transitive) To clog, to glut, or satisfy, as the appetite; to satiate.
Sate
To provide (someone) with more than enough; glut.
Cloy
(transitive) To fill to loathing; to surfeit.
Sate
A past tense of sit.
Cloy
To fill or choke up; to stop up; to clog.
The duke's purpose was to have cloyed the harbor by sinking ships, laden with stones.
Sate
To satisfy the appetite or desire of; to fill up.
At last he stopped, his hunger and thirst sated.
Cloy
To glut, or satisfy, as the appetite; to satiate; to fill to loathing; to surfeit.
[Who can] cloy the hungry edge of appetiteBy bare imagination of a feast?
He sometimes cloys his readers instead of satisfying.
Sate
Satay
Cloy
To penetrate or pierce; to wound.
Which, with his cruel tusk, him deadly cloyed.
He never shod horse but he cloyed him.
Sate
To satisfy the desire or appetite of; to satiate; to glut; to surfeit.
Crowds of wanderers sated with the business and pleasure of great cities.
Cloy
To spike, as a cannon.
Sate
Fill to satisfaction;
I am sated
Cloy
To stroke with a claw.
Cloy
Supply or feed to surfeit
Cloy
Cause surfeit through excess though initially pleasing;
Too much spicy food cloyed his appetite
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