That which remains when use or need is satisfied, or when a limit is reached; excess; overplus.
Specifically, an amount in the public treasury at any time greater than is required for the ordinary purposes of the government.
Being or constituting a surplus; more than sufficient; as, surplus revenues; surplus population; surplus words.
Excess in eating and drinking.
Fullness and oppression of the system, occasioned often by excessive eating and drinking.
Disgust caused by excess; satiety.
To load the stomach with food, so that sickness or uneasiness ensues; to eat to excess.
To indulge to satiety in any gratification.
To feed so as to oppress the stomach and derange the function of the system; to overfeed, and produce satiety, sickness, or uneasiness; - often reflexive; as, to surfeit one's self with sweets.
To fill to satiety and disgust; to cloy; as, he surfeits us with compliments.
That which remains when use or need is satisfied, or when a limit is reached; excess; overplus.
Specifically, an amount in the public treasury at any time greater than is required for the ordinary purposes of the government.
Being or constituting a surplus; more than sufficient; as, surplus revenues; surplus population; surplus words.
Excess in eating and drinking.
Fullness and oppression of the system, occasioned often by excessive eating and drinking.
Disgust caused by excess; satiety.
To load the stomach with food, so that sickness or uneasiness ensues; to eat to excess.
To indulge to satiety in any gratification.
To feed so as to oppress the stomach and derange the function of the system; to overfeed, and produce satiety, sickness, or uneasiness; - often reflexive; as, to surfeit one's self with sweets.
To fill to satiety and disgust; to cloy; as, he surfeits us with compliments.