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UK
/sˈɜːfɪt/
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[ US /ˈsɝfət/ ]
[ US /ˈsɝfət/ ]
NOUN
- the quality of being so overabundant that prices fall
- the state of being more than full
- eating until excessively full
VERB
- indulge (one's appetite) to satiety
- supply or feed to surfeit
How To Use surfeit In A Sentence
- That's no mean boast, since there's a surfeit of super-featherweight talent around.
- For the past three decades we have basked in a surfeit of energy. Times, Sunday Times
- We are surfeited with Italian cities for the present, and much prefer to walk the familiar quarter-deck and view this one from a distance.
- _unto_ is placed last in the verse, and at the half period, and is redundant, there is the former synchysis in the words "the sword, nor surfeits" which in construction ought to have been placed before the other. The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 04
- A surfeit of boldfaced names, from world leaders to media personalities, lend the book a sensational thrill.
- If all else fails, you can always just eat the table decorations, since it seems that every festive table these days plays host to a generous bowl of fruit and nuts and a surfeit of chocolates.
- The failure to laugh signifies in the peasant or the Frenchman a politeness that exceeds his intelligence, in the landowner or the Englishman an excessive rigidity, and in the policeman or the German a surfeit of power.
- We must deal with pleasure as we do with honey, only touch them with the tip of the finger, and not with the whole hand for fear of surfeit.
- There is a surfeit of news these days - a string of dramatic, violent, terrible events being played out almost simultaneously in different parts of the world.
- We have been suffering from a surfeit of committees. Infinite in All Directions