Usually means: Excessive amount of something; overabundance.
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  1. surfeit: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. surfeit: Merriam-Webster
  3. surfeit: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. surfeit: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. surfeit: Collins English Dictionary
  6. surfeit: Vocabulary.com
  7. Surfeit, surfeit: Wordnik
  8. surfeit: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. surfeit: Wiktionary
  10. surfeit: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. surfeit: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. surfeit: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. surfeit: Dictionary.com
  14. surfeit (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Surfeit: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Surfeit: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. surfeit: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. surfeit: Rhymezone
  19. surfeit: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. surfeit: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. surfeit: FreeDictionary.org
  22. surfeit: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  23. surfeit: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. surfeit: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. surfeit: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. surfeit: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. surfeit: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Rudy's List of Archaic Medical Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (surfeit)

adjective:  (archaic) Sated; surfeited; filled.
noun:  (countable) An excessive amount of something.
noun:  (uncountable) Overindulgence in either food or drink; overeating.
noun:  (countable) A sickness or condition caused by overindulgence.
noun:  Disgust caused by excess; satiety.
noun:  (countable) A group of skunks.
verb:  (transitive) To fill (something) to excess.
verb:  (transitive) To feed (someone) to excess (on, upon or with something).
verb:  (transitive) To make (someone) sick as a result of overconsumption.
verb:  (transitive, figurative) To supply (someone) with something to excess; to disgust (someone) through overabundance.
verb:  (transitive) To satisfy (someone's appetite) to excess (both literally and figuratively).
verb:  (intransitive, reflexive) To overeat or feed to excess (on or upon something).
verb:  (intransitive, reflexive, figurative) To indulge (in something) to excess.
verb:  (intransitive, reflexive) To become sick from overindulgence (both literally and figuratively).

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