v.
Pronunciation: ' klo ̇ i
Function: verb
Etymology: Middle English, to hinder, lame, alteration of acloyen to harm, maim, modification of Anglo-French encloer to nail, prick a horse with a nail in shoeing, from Medieval Latin inclavare, from Latin in + clavus nail
Date: 1528
transitive verb : to surfeit with an excess usually of something orig. pleasing
intransitive verb : to cause surfeit
synonyms see SATIATE