Overindulgencenoun
An act of overindulging; indulgence in too much; pleasure or consumption taken in excess of what is satisfying or necessary.
‘He blames his overindulgence in food for his expanding waistline.’;
Surfeitnoun
(countable) An excessive amount of something.
‘A surfeit of wheat is driving down the price.’;
Overindulgencenoun
excessive indulgence;
‘the child was spoiled by overindulgence’;
Surfeitnoun
(uncountable) Overindulgence in either food or drink; overeating.
Surfeitnoun
(countable) A sickness or condition caused by overindulgence.
‘King Henry I is said to have died of a surfeit of lampreys.’;
Surfeitnoun
Disgust caused by excess; satiety.
Surfeitverb
(transitive) To fill to excess.
Surfeitverb
(transitive) To feed someone to excess.
‘She surfeited her children on sweets.’;
Surfeitverb
To overeat or feed to excess.
Surfeitverb
To sicken from overindulgence.
Surfeitnoun
Excess in eating and drinking.
‘Let not Sir Surfeit sit at thy board.’; ‘Now comes the sick hour that his surfeit made.’;
Surfeitnoun
Fullness and oppression of the system, occasioned often by excessive eating and drinking.
‘To prevent surfeit and other diseases that are incident to those that heat their blood by travels.’;
Surfeitnoun
Disgust caused by excess; satiety.
‘Matter and argument have been supplied abundantly, and even to surfeit.’;
Surfeitverb
To load the stomach with food, so that sickness or uneasiness ensues; to eat to excess.
‘They are as sick that surfeit with too much as they that starve with nothing.’;
Surfeitverb
To indulge to satiety in any gratification.
Surfeitverb
To feed so as to oppress the stomach and derange the function of the system; to overfeed, and produce satiety, sickness, or uneasiness; - often reflexive; as, to surfeit one's self with sweets.
Surfeitverb
To fill to satiety and disgust; to cloy; as, he surfeits us with compliments.
Surfeitnoun
the state of being more than full
Surfeitnoun
the quality of being so overabundant that prices fall
Surfeitnoun
eating until excessively full
Surfeitverb
supply or feed to surfeit
Surfeitverb
indulge (one's appetite) to satiety
Surfeitnoun
an excessive amount of something
‘a surfeit of food and drink’;
Surfeitnoun
an illness caused or regarded as being caused by excessive eating or drinking
‘he died of a surfeit’;
Surfeitverb
cause (someone) to desire no more of something as a result of having consumed or done it to excess
‘I am surfeited with shopping’;
Surfeitverb
consume too much of something
‘he never surfeited on rich wine’;
Surfeit
Surfeit is a human gene cluster that consists of a group of very tightly linked genes on chromosome 9 that do not share sequence similarity. Genes in this cluster are numbered 1 through 6: SURF1, SURF2, SURF3, SURF4, SURF5, and SURF6.
