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cloying

/ˈklɔɪ.ɪŋ/

verb

Meaning

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

  • To clog, to glut, or satisfy, as the appetite; to satiate.

  • To fill to loathing; to surfeit.

Synonyms

block,
block up,
choke,
fill,
fill up,
stop up,
stuff,
stuff up,
jade,
nauseate,
pall,
sicken,
surfeit,
fill up,
glut,
gorge,
sate,
satiate,
satisfy,
stodge,
stuff,
stuff up

adjective

Meaning

  • Unpleasantly excessive.

    "The cloying fondness she displayed was what, in the end, drove me away."

  • Excessively sweet.

Synonyms

oversweet,
saccharine,
syrupy,
treacly,
exaggerated