1. To weary by excess, especially of sweetness, richness, pleasure, etc.
intransitive verb:
1. To become distasteful through an excess usually of something originally pleasing.
The opulence, the music, the gouty food -- all start to cloyThe season of debates, primaries and candidacy was exhillerating in January and February; yet has become cloy today in May.
my senses.--
Jeffrey Tayler, "The Moscow Rave part two: I Have Payments to
Make on My Mink", Atlantic, December 31, 1997
I
use orange and lemon zest in the recipe and a drizzle of soured cream at the
table
to take away its tendency to cloy.-- Nigel Slater, "Cream tease", The
Observer, December 14, 2003
The soft Orvieto Abboccato has just enough
sweetness to please but not to cloy, a friendly character that tempts one to
linger over a second glass.-- George Pandi, "Orvieto's pleasures deserve to be
savored like its wine", Boston Herald, July 18, 2004
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