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Adjective cloying has 1 sense
- cloying, saccharine, syrupy, treacly - overly sweet
Antonym: sour (indirect, via sweet)
Verb cloy has 2 senses
- surfeit, cloy - supply or feed to surfeit
--1 is one way to supply, provide, render, furnish
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- cloy, pall - cause surfeit through excess though initially pleasing; "Too much spicy food cloyed his appetite"
--2 is one way to satiate, sate, replete, fill
Sample sentences:
Something ----s
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
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