| 单词 | cloy |
| 释义 | cloy[ kloi ] / klɔɪ / SEE SYNONYMS FOR cloy ON THESAURUS.COM verb (used with object)to weary by an excess of food, sweetness, pleasure, etc.; surfeit; satiate. verb (used without object)to become uninteresting or distasteful through overabundance: A diet of cake and candy soon cloys. Origin of cloy1350–1400; aphetic variant of Middle English acloyen<Middle French enclo(y)er<Late Latin inclāvāre to nail in, equivalent to in-in-2 + -clāvāre, verbal derivative of clāvus nail SYNONYMS FOR cloy1 glut, sate, bore. SEE SYNONYMS FOR cloy ON THESAURUS.COM OTHER WORDS FROM cloyo·ver·cloy, verb (used with object)un·cloyed, adjectiveWords nearby cloyclown anemone, clown car, clownery, clown white, cloxacillin, cloy, cloying, clozapine, Clozaril, cloze, cloze test Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for cloyBritish Dictionary definitions for cloycloy / (klɔɪ) / verbto make weary or cause weariness through an excess of something initially pleasurable or sweet Word Origin for cloyC14 (originally: to nail, hence, to obstruct): from earlier acloyen, from Old French encloer, from Medieval Latin inclavāre, from Latin clāvāre to nail, from clāvus a nail Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 |
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