cloy
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Inglese
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Verbo
Transitivo
cloy (vai alla coniugazione) (3ª persona sing. presente cloys, participio presente cloying, passato semplice e participio passato cloyed)
- riempire, colmare qualcosa fino all'eccesso
- satollare, saziare
- (per estensione) stancare, nauseare, venire a noia
- his flatteries cloyed me - le sue adulazioni mi hanno stancato
Pronuncia
- IPA: /klɔɪ/
Etimologia / Derivazione
dal latino clavo, letteralmente "inchiodare", attraverso il francese antico enclouer e l'inglese antico acloyen
Sinonimi
- (riempire) to choke, to fill, to fill up, to stop up, to stuff, to stuff up
- (saziare) to fill up, to glut, to gorge, to sate, to satiate, to satisfy, to stodge, to stuff, to stuff up
- (stancare, disgustare) to jade, to nauseate, to pall, to sicken, to surfeit
Parole derivate
- The Free Dictionary, edizione online
- Merriam-Webster, Versione on-line
- WordReference.com, Versione on-line Inglese-Italiano
- Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary