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third-person singular simple present cloys, present participle cloying, simple past and past participle cloyed
(transitive) To fill up or choke up; to stop up. examples
(transitive) To clog, to glut, or satisfy, as the appetite; to satiate. examples
(transitive) To fill to loathing; to surfeit. quotations examples
Now all this was very fine, but not at all in keeping with the Celebrity's character as I had come to conceive it. The idea that adulation ever cloyed on him was ludicrous in itself. In fact I thought the whole story fishy, and came very near to saying so.
1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter III, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd.