cloy

IPA(Pronunciation)

/klɔɪ/

Verb

transitive

(transitive) To fill up or choke up; to stop up. / (transitive) To clog, to glut, or satisfy, as the appetite; to satiate. / (transitive) To fill to loathing; to surfeit.

Japanese Meaning

過度に供給して飽きさせる、または嫌悪感を生じさせる。 / 必要以上に充足させることにより、逆に興味や好意を失わせる。

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Years of sediment have begun to cloy the estuary, threatening the boats.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

長年の堆積物が河口を詰まらせ始め、船の航行を脅かしている。

Details

Sense（1）

(transitive) To fill up or choke up; to stop up.

Sense（2）

(transitive) To clog, to glut, or satisfy, as the appetite; to satiate.

Sense（3）

(transitive) To fill to loathing; to surfeit.

Now all this was very fine, but not at all in keeping with the Celebrity's character as I had come to conceive it. The idea that adulation ever cloyed on him was ludicrous in itself. In fact I thought the whole story fishy, and came very near to saying so.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

Details

cloys

（ present singular third-person ）

cloying

（ participle present ）

cloyed

（ participle past ）

cloyed

（ past ）

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