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surfeit
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the state or an instance of going beyond what is usual, proper, or needed
- ended up with a surfeit of volunteers who simply got in each other's way
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surfeit
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to fill with food to capacity
- having surfeited ourselves on raw oysters, we had to decline the rest of the restaurant's offerings
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satiate, sate, surfeit, cloy, pall, glut, gorge mean to fill to repletion. satiate and sate may sometimes imply only complete satisfaction but more often suggest repletion that has destroyed interest or desire.
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- years of globe-trotting had satiated their interest in travel
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- readers were sated with sensationalistic stories
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- surfeited themselves with junk food
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- sentimental pictures that cloy after a while
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- a life of leisure eventually begins to pall
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- a market glutted with diet books
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- gorged themselves with chocolate
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