(v. t.) To glut, or satisfy, as the appetite; to satiate; to fill to loathing; to surfeit.
(v. t.) To penetrate or pierce; to wound.
(v. t.) To spike, as a cannon.
(v. t.) To stroke with a claw.
Example Sentences:
(1) "A syrupy drizzle of prettiness covers this cloying movie," wrote the Guardian's Peter Bradshaw .
(2) On top of the succession, that child would be the first direct female link to not only the heaving emotional tsunami that was Diana, but also the cloying sense of public ownership of Diana.
(3) Some mentioned a macho, sexist culture, and others said they felt patronised by a cloying paternalism.
(4) You can structure your sweet eating so that every mouthful contains cloying pink goo.
(5) Given that what gets on my wick is precisely that kind of vacuous waffle, allow me to illuminate you all: Teavana Oprah Chai is merely vaguely spicy, very sweet tea that would be instantly forgettable if it wasn’t so queasily cloying.
(6) Many people were suspicious of this alien seed which announces itself with its all-pervasive perfume, reminiscent of honey to some, cloyingly sweet and as sickly as regurgitated baby milk to others.
(7) Still cloyingly submissive you'll be pleased to know.
(8) The word "foodie", it is true, lays claim to a kind of cloying, infantile cuteness which is in a way appropriate to its subject; but one should not allow them the rhetorical claim of harmless innocence implied.
(9) There is no need for cloying nostalgia, but let's get it in perspective.
(10) Of course, other fruit can be used in place of the rhubarb, but sharp fruits are best to avoid a cloying sweetness.
(11) The relentless barrage of wellness and self-improvement-focused tourism can border on the cloying (after a delicately-spiced breakfast of quinoa and almond milk at ChocolaTree, I find myself all but begging a waitress at a nearby downmarket diner to give me the strongest, worst-quality filter coffee she can find).
(12) The VMAs have gone from provocative and shambolic in the 80s and 90s to a cloyingly sweet, backslapping circle jerk, so Minaj’s sore-loser honesty felt refreshing.
(13) I was scheduled for an op, on the following Thursday, and allowed, with cloying reluctance, to go home.
(14) Gilbert, like Murland, wants a timely reconsideration of the facts: "In the war's immediate aftermath, it was completely understandable it should be treated as something of the greatest reverence, but 100 years on this continuing reverence has lost its original grief-laden meaning in favour of an increasingly cloying sentimentality," he said, adding: "The first world war should be considered within a chronological continuum, and not as an event outside history itself."
(15) This was a tiny inflection of independence, cloaked in cloying praise; some kind of last hurrah.
(16) And she enjoys proselytising to her fans, spreading cloying mantras through her music, onstage banter, interviews and tweets, like a bobbed Deepak Chopra for the Twilight generation.
(17) It was a cloying sense of deja vu attached to the team that finished seventh last season, 22 points off the top and drastically in need of some more dynamism.
(18) In many cases lack of street paving, insufficient water, proliferating cesspools and open sewers turned them into cloying, degrading and offensive mires.
(19) It has been tainted for ever with the cloying stain of celebrity, and the only thing tackier than being a celebrity is looking like a celebrity copycat.
Satiate
Definition:
(a.) Filled to satiety; glutted; sated; -- followed by with or of.
(v. t.) To satisfy the appetite or desire of; to feed to the full; to furnish enjoyment to, to the extent of desire; to sate; as, to satiate appetite or sense.
(v. t.) To full beyond natural desire; to gratify to repletion or loathing; to surfeit; to glut.
(v. t.) To saturate.
Example Sentences:
(1) Release of noradrenaline (NA), adrenaline (A) and dopamine (DA) was measured in vivo per minute before and after food presentation in satiated rats that had a cannula in the mediodorsal hypothalamic area (MDH).
(2) Averaged evoked potentials (EP) to a CS (flash) were recorded sequentially in classical appetitive conditioning, satiated state after appetitive conditioning, highly alert state by noncontingent shocks, and classical aversive conditioning from a rat.
(3) These results demonstrate that systemic administration of baclofen can stimulate ingestive behaviour in satiated rats and suggest a possible role for a GABAB receptor-mediated mechanism in the control of food intake.
(4) Similar experiments in which neurotensin (NT) was perfused in the LH, PVN and VMN revealed virtually the same inverse effects on NE release in the fasted and satiated rat, which again were anatomically specific.
(5) Thus, obese male mice were at least as sensitive to the satiating effect of CCK-8 as lean male mice.
(6) Explanations in terms of satiation theory, learning theory, instructions, and perceptual bias were discussed.
(7) These results indicate that 5-HT exerts its anorectic effect only after some food has been ingested, and support the hypothesis that 5-HT accelerates the development of satiation and satiety.
(8) In order to test this hypothesis in intact, free-moving animals and to determine if the MCCs play a role in satiation of feeding, the behavior of animals that had their MCCs destroyed by intracellular injection of proteases was compared with that of B Cell-Lesion and Dye injection control animals (Experiment 1) or surgical control animals (Experiment 2).
(9) But subsequent research has shown that because fat is more satiating, or filling, eating some higher fat foods can lead to lower calorie intake overall.
(10) The perifornical lateral hypothalamus displayed a different pattern, namely, a significant increase in NPY content in refed as compared to satiated and deprived rats.
(11) The rats' differential responses to alpha-adrenergic and beta-adrenergic drugs injected into different hypothalamic sites indicate the following: (1) the lateral hypothalamic "feeding" center contains beta receptors, the activation of which produces satiation, presumably by inhibition of the lateral "feeding" cells; (2) the ventromedial hypothalamic "satiety" center contains alpha receptors, the activation of which produces eating, presumably by inhibition of the ventromedial "satiety" cells; and (3) the medio-lateral perifornical area of the hypothalamus contains both alpha and beta receptors, which lead to inhibition of the ventromedial or lateral hypothalamic centers respectively.
(12) Spike activity of neurons (areas 3, 4) was studied in cats during conditioned placing reaction before and after food satiation.
(13) Beliefs about the satiating effect of foods varying in contents of proteins, fats, carbohydrates, and fibre were investigated by face-to-face interviews with a random telephone sample of 101 subjects.
(14) Upon sexual satiation with the second male, females either received a novel third male or were reexposed to the original male.
(15) The lack of response of the amygdaloid cortical nucleus to adrenergic stimulation in the satiated rat, under simultaneous stimulation of the lateral hypothalamus with either placebo or an adrenergic blocker, was also demonstrated.
(16) To that end, the present study examined the effects of 90-dB white noise on eating in satiated rats.
(17) 2 This anorexia is also observed in satiated rats, which had ad libitum access to food.
(18) Injected NPY can override a variety of satiating factors, including those arising from normal feed intake, artificial distension of the reticulorumen, and intraruminal infusion of sodium propionate.
(19) Amphetamine also increased all behaviours when rats were tested with their cagemates, when the desire for SI is largely satiated.
(20) This 'satiation' response occurred even though the initial diet was originally highly attractive to foraging workers.