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I

(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)

v. stuff, cram, choke, pack, jam. —n. surplus, surfeit, plethora, saturation, satiety, redundance. See sufficiency. Ant., dearth.

II

(Roget's IV) n.

Syn. oversupply, overabundance, excess; see excess 1 .

v.

1. [To oversupply]

Syn. flood, overwhelm, overstock, fill, load, congest, inundate, overload, surcharge, burden, deluge, saturate, clog, choke, cloy, gorge.

Ant. save*, scant, undersupply.

2. [To eat to satiety]

Syn. satiate, surfeit, stuff, cram, gorge, overeat, hog, eat one's fill, gobble up, eat out of house and home, fill, cloy, feast, raven, wolf, bolt, devour, eat like a horse*.

See Synonym Study at satiate .

Ant. starve*, diet*.

III

(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus)

I

n.

excess, surplus, overabundance, superfluity, surfeit, surplus, flood, inundation, overflow, plethora, repletion.

ANT.: dearth, scarcity, lack, shortage

II

v.

fill, flood, surfeit, sate, satiate, inundate, clog, choke, oversupply, stuff, congest, overload.

IV

(Roget's Thesaurus II) I verb To satisfy to the full or to excess: cloy, engorge, gorge, pall, sate, satiate, surfeit. See EXCESS, FULL. II noun An amount or quantity beyond what is needed, desired, or appropriate: excess, fat, overage, overflow, overmuch, overrun, overstock, oversupply, superfluity, surplus, surplusage. See EXCESS.