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Verb: cloy  kloy
  1. Supply or feed to surfeit
    "The excessive sweetness of the dessert cloyed their palates";
    - surfeit
     
  2. Cause surfeit through excess though initially pleasing
    "Too much spicy food cloyed his appetite";
    - pall

Derived forms: cloys, cloying, cloyed

Type of: fill, furnish, offer, provide, render, replete, sate, satiate, supply

Encyclopedia: Cloy, George