Definitions for surfeit

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surfeit sur·feit

Spelling: [sur-fit]

IPA: /ˈsɜr fɪt/

Surfeit is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 209 anagrams from letters in surfeit (efirstu).

Definitions for surfeit

noun

1. excess; an excessive amount:
2. excess or overindulgence in eating or drinking.
3. an uncomfortably full or crapulous feeling due to excessive eating or drinking.
4. general disgust caused by excess or satiety.

verb (used with object)

1. to bring to a state of surfeit by excess of food or drink.
2. to supply with anything to excess or satiety; satiate.

verb (used without object)

1. to eat or drink to excess.
2. to suffer from the effects of overindulgence in eating or drinking.
3. to indulge to excess in anything.

Origin of surfeit

1250-1300; (noun) Middle English sorfete, surfait Middle French surfait, surfet (noun use of past participle of surfaire to overdo), equivalent to sur- sur-¹

Examples for surfeit

Adventure is all very well, but I have discovered that one can get a surfeit of it.

In the state it is all hunger at one end, and all surfeit at the other.

There are no wrenching epiphanies, just mild embarrassments and a surfeit of confusion.

I fancied I had left them all behind me in the city, where one has such a surfeit of them.

She was ready to meet love with a surfeit of the rich gifts which she had at her command.

Her life had been unfortunate, and of horrors she had touched a surfeit.

There was enough to surfeit twice as many persons as sat down to table.

Ay, and in the enjoyment of external beauty a sort of surfeit is engendered.

The culture wars have presented us with a surfeit of either/ors.

We may have enough of justice in our character as rebels to give us a surfeit of it.