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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of surfeit.
  • noun Plural form of surfeit.

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Examples

  • Link thou art too full of the wars 'surfeits to go rove with one that's yet unbruised

    forget all about that macho shit and learn how to play guitar matociquala 2007

  • Scottish borough are rendered, by their limited means of luxury, inaccessible to gout, surfeits, and all the comfortable chronic diseases which are attendant on wealth and indolence.

    The Surgeon's Daughter 2008

  • The Opera with its lemans, the pink boudoir and its flossy hangings, the feast and its surfeits; we have even seen

    Balzac 2003

  • Large, round-shouldered, and clean-shaven like a chef, Virubov was for ever hitching up breeches which had slipped from a stomach ruined with surfeits of watermelon.

    Through Russia 2003

  • Looke how I am, such art thou like to be If armes preuent not heauens intendiment, _Grinuile_, which now surfeits with dignitie,

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • Among the effects to be feared are cholera and excess: he enumerates celebrated people who died of surfeits of melon.

    Savoring The Past Wheaton Barbara Ketcham 1983

  • Among the effects to be feared are cholera and excess: he enumerates celebrated people who died of surfeits of melon.

    Savoring The Past Wheaton Barbara Ketcham 1983

  • There is a prevailing flavor of syrupy insincerity, an affectation of wholehearted truthfulness, amounting to the worst kind of deception, which sickens as it surfeits.

    The Apotheosis of John F. Kennedy Muggeridge, Malcolm 1965

  • Robert Turner naively says, "The Red Poppy Flower (_Papaver erraticum_) resembleth at its bottom the settling [438] of the 'Blood in pleurisie'"; and, he adds, "how excellent is that flower in diseases of the pleurisie with similar surfeits hath been sufficiently experienced."

    Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie

  • I have no doubt that disgust is implanted in the minds of many healthy children by early surfeits of pathological piety.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859 Various

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