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Ployed vs Cloyed - What's the difference?

ployed | cloyed |

As verbs the difference between ployed and cloyed

is that ployed is (ploy) while cloyed is (cloy).

ployed

English

Verb

(head)
  • (ploy)

    • ploy

    English

    Etymology 1

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A tactic, strategy, or gimmick.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=70, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Engineers of a different kind , passage=Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers.
  • (UK, Scotland, dialect) Sport; frolic.

    • Etymology 2

    Probably abbreviated from deploy.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (military) To form a column from a line of troops on some designated subdivision.
    • (Wilhelm)
    Antonyms
    * deploy (Webster 1913)

    Anagrams

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    cloyed

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (cloy)

    • cloy

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To fill up or choke up; to stop up.
  • To clog, to glut, or satisfy, as the appetite; to satiate.
  • To fill to loathing; to surfeit.
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=3 , passage=Now all this was very fine, but not at all in keeping with the Celebrity's character as I had come to conceive it. The idea that adulation ever cloyed on him was ludicrous in itself. In fact I thought the whole story fishy, and came very near to saying so.}}

    Synonyms

    * (fill or choke up) block, block up, choke, fill, fill up, stop up, stuff, stuff up * (satiate) fill up, glut, gorge, sate, satiate, satisfy, stodge, stuff, stuff up * (fill to loathing) jade, nauseate, pall, sicken, surfeit