Thesaurus / surfeit
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They drank till from very surfeit they fell down stricken; and three hundred died, slain by the element of life.
GOD WILLS IT!WILLIAM STEARNS DAVISThen the wild beasts hid in the thickets made of them a prey, and they who escaped this evil, perished from the poison of surfeit.
HEBRAIC LITERATURE; TRANSLATIONS FROM THE TALMUD, MIDRASHIM AND KABBALAVARIOUSShe would have preferred open, antagonistic originality, but she got a surfeit of clear, mirror-like peace.
THE BUTTERFLY HOUSEMARY E. WILKINS FREEMANPeople were no longer sickened by sloth and surfeit, or deformed and depleted by overwork and famine.
A TRAVELER FROM ALTRURIA: ROMANCEWILLIAM DEAN HOWELLSHe smelt the Prince's breath, and swore that it stank of a surfeit of undigested Martellian verses.
THE MEMOIRS OF COUNT CARLO GOZZI; VOLUME THE FIRSTCOUNT CARLO GOZZIThere was a feeling of luxury in the change, which none can know who have not had a surfeit of boundless plains.
THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY, VOLUME 14, NO. 81, JULY, 1864VARIOUSThis volume is most justly to be called a feast of nectared sweets where no crude surfeit reigns.
LETTERS FROM THE ALLEGHANY MOUNTAINSCHARLES LANMANIf they got a surfeit from cramming turtle down their noble throats, it would be in the papers!
BENTLEY'S MISCELLANY, VOLUME IIVARIOUSOf course, Claire was a very sweet girl, but it was so easy to have a surfeit of sweets.
PEGGY RAYMOND'S VACATIONHARRIET L. (HARRIET LUMMIS) SMITHHaving failed in the attempt he escaped to Italy, where in 1716 he died from a surfeit of figs!
MAKERS OF BRITISH BOTANY; A COLLECTION OF BIOGRAPHIES BY LIVING BOTANISTSVARIOUSWORDS RELATED TO SURFEIT
- accomplishes
- appeases
- assuages
- assures
- avails
- comes up to
- completes
- complies with
- conforms to
- convinces
- dispels doubt
- does
- equips
- fills
- fulfills
- furnishes
- gets by
- induces
- inveigles
- is adequate
- is enough
- is sufficient
- keeps promise
- makes good
- makes the grade
- meets
- observes
- passes muster
- performs
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- scores
- sells
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- wins over
- amuse
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- befriend
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- capture
- cheer
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- comfort
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- delight
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- elate
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- enthrall
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- fascinate
- fill
- fill the bill
- flatter
- get by
- gladden
- glut
- gorge
- gratify
- hit the spot
- humor
- indulge
- make merry
- make the grade
- mollify
- pacify
- placate
- propitiate
- quench
- rejoice
- sate
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- score
- sell
- sell on
- slake
- suit
- surfeit
- balance
- by-product
- embarrassment
- enough
- excessiveness
- exorbitance
- extravagance
- extravagancy
- extravagantness
- exuberance
- fat
- fulsomeness
- glut
- inundation
- lavishness
- leavings
- leftover
- luxuriance
- nimiety
- overabundance
- overdose
- overflow
- overkill
- overload
- overmuch
- overrun
- oversupply
- overweight
- plenty
- plethora
- profusion
- recrement
- redundance
- redundancy
- refuse
- remainder
- residue
- rest
- spare
- superabundance
- supererogation
- superfluity
- surfeit
- surplus
- the limit
- too much
- too much of a good thing
- waste
- wastefulness
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