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| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | excess, overabundance |
| Type of | fullness |
surfeit::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | glut, oversupply |
| Type of | overmuch, overabundance, overmuchness, superabundance |
Examples of surfeit
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He also admits that Everything Everywhere has a surfeit of competing executives.
From the telegraph.co.uk
Elsewhere, a surfeit of pointless earth embankments is the least of the trouble.
From the economist.com
The surfeit and expense of health workers is one reason for Europe's bankruptcy.
From the guardian.co.uk
If the latter, then nature will attend to the surfeit of humans in the usual way.
From the independent.co.uk
Not surprisingly, there's been a surfeit of potential performers for the evening.
From the variety.com
Mind you, some Chinese critics have said that it suffers from a surfeit of style.
From the morningstaronline.co.uk
On a team with a surfeit of scoring options, Kaman does much of the dirty work.
From the sportsillustrated.cnn.com
But in the ever-volatile ICT sector, one man's shortage can be another's surfeit.
From the smh.com.au
The surfeit of public holidays has been a subject of concern for almost 30 years.
From the en.wikipedia.org
- Supply or feed to surfeit
- The state of being more than full
- Glut: the quality of being so overabundant that prices fall
- Indulge (one's appetite) to satiety
- Repletion: eating until excessively full
- Surfeit is a human gene cluster that consists of a group of very tightly linked genes on chromosome 9 that do not share sequence similarity. Genes in this cluster are numbered 1 through 6: SURF1, SURF2, SURF3, SURF4, SURF5, and SURF6.
- (Surfeits) Overeating generally refers to the long-term consumption of excess food in relation to the energy that an organism expends (or expels via excretion), leading to weight gain and often obesity. It may be regarded as an eating disorder.
- An excessive amount of something; Overindulgence in either food or drink; overeating; A sickness or condition caused by overindulgence; To fill to excess; To feed someone to excess; To overeat or feed to excess; To sicken from overindulgence
- (SURFEITING) [Lk 21:34] the act of feeding to excess.
