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   cloy

   /klɔɪ/

   verb

   • 1. disgust or sicken (someone) with an excess of sweetness, richness, or sentiment: "a curious bitter-sweetness that cloyed her senses"

   Word Origin late Middle English: shortening of obsolete accloy ‘stop up, choke’, from Old French encloyer ‘drive a nail into’, from medieval Latin inclavare, from clavus ‘a nail’.

   Scrabble Points: 9

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     3

   • L

     1

   • O

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   • Y

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