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Meaning of 'surfeit' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Surfeit [ n.]
- Excess in eating and drinking.
- Fullness and oppression of the system, occasioned often by excessive eating and drinking.
- Disgust caused by excess; satiety.
2 . Surfeit [ v. i.]
- To load the stomach with food, so that sickness or uneasiness ensues; to eat to excess.
- To indulge to satiety in any gratification.
3 . Surfeit [ v. t.]
- 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.
- To fill to satiety and disgust; to cloy; as, he surfeits us with compliments.

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