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surfeit

C2 verb

surfeit /ˈsɝː.fɪt/ nghĩa là làm đầy quá mức

Các nghĩa

  1. làm đầy quá mức

    To fill (something) to excess.

    transitive

    A surfeit of alternatives leads to a bad choice.

  2. cho ăn quá nhiều

    To feed (someone) to excess (on, upon or with something).

    transitive

    She surfeited her children on sweets.

  3. làm phát ốm vì ăn quá nhiều

    To make (someone) sick as a result of overconsumption.

    transitive

    […] that proportion of meat surfetteth, and surchargeth the stomacks of some, which is not enough to satisfie the hunger of others,

    […] I imagine him poisoned by his wines, or surfeited by a favourite dish;

  4. cung cấp quá nhiều, làm ngán

    To supply (someone) with something to excess; to disgust (someone) through overabundance.

    figuratively · transitive

    […] he shan’t shut me up in this dismal castle, and nauseate me with his surfeiting fondness:

    […] I suppose his majesty thought we had enough of it on the field, and did not wish to surfeit us with glory.

    After supper, surfeited with the subject, she yawned.

  5. thỏa mãn quá mức

    To satisfy (someone's appetite) to excess.

    figuratively · sometimes · transitive

    […] his appetite for vulgar praise had not yet been surfeited;

  6. ăn quá nhiều

    To overeat or feed to excess (on or upon something).

    intransitive · reflexive

    Millions of people were starving, while the oligarchs and their supporters were surfeiting on the surplus.

    Those who do not surfeit themselves do not weary quickly of any particular article of diet.

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  1. ham mê quá độ

    To indulge (in something) to excess.

    figuratively · intransitive · reflexive

    […] a more fantastic idiot had never surfeited herself on sweet lies, and swallowed poison as if it were nectar.

  2. phát ốm vì quá độ

    To become sick from overindulgence.

    figuratively · intransitive · reflexive · sometimes

    […] they are as sick that surfeit with too much as they that starve with nothing.

    I must confesse at my first reading of them [the miracles of Hildegard of Bingen], my belief digested some, but surfeted on the rest:

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