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Surfeit

Excess in eating and drinking.

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Eating 76% connected

of Eat

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Feeding 76% connected

of Feed

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Fullness 76% connected

The state of being full, or of abounding; abundance; completeness.

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Furnish 76% connected

To supply with anything necessary, useful, or appropriate; to provide; to equip; to fit out, or fit up; to adorn; as, to furnish a family with provis…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Indulge 76% connected

To be complacent toward; to give way to; not to oppose or restrain

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Luxuriate 76% connected

To grow exuberantly; to grow to superfluous abundance.

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Offer 76% connected

To present, as an act of worship; to immolate; to sacrifice; to present in prayer or devotion; -- often with up.

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Overmuch 76% connected

Too much.

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Overmuchness 76% connected

The quality or state of being in excess; superabundance.

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Provide 76% connected

To look out for in advance; to procure beforehand; to get, collect, or make ready for future use; to prepare.

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Render 76% connected

One who rends.

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Superabundance 76% connected

The quality or state of being superabundant; a superabundant quantity; redundancy; excess.

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Supply 76% connected

To fill up, or keep full; to furnish with what is wanted; to afford, or furnish with, a sufficiency; as, rivers are supplied by smaller streams; an a…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Cloy 74% connected

To fill or choke up; to stop up; to clog.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Cloy 74% connected

To fill or choke up; to stop up; to clog.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Synonym 5

Cloy 92% connected

To fill or choke up; to stop up; to clog.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Excess 92% connected

The state of surpassing or going beyond limits; the being of a measure beyond sufficiency, necessity, or duty; that which exceeds what is usual or pr…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Glut 92% connected

To swallow, or to swallow greedlly; to gorge.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Oversupply 92% connected

To supply in excess.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Repletion 92% connected

The state of being replete; superabundant fullness.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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