Surfeit

sur-fit

an excessive amount of something; to cause someone to desire no more of something as a result of having consumed or done it to excess.

“An incredible surfeit of orange juice was consumed that night; I, for one, drank it with the same enthusiasm as a jet engine consumes fuel.”

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