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Cloy vs. Sate — What's the Difference?

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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