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Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) - Cite This Source - Share This
glut       [gluht] Pronunciation Key verb, glut·ted, glut·ting, noun
–verb (used with object)
1.to feed or fill to satiety; sate: to glut the appetite.
2.to feed or fill to excess; cloy.
3.to flood (the market) with a particular item or service so that the supply greatly exceeds the demand.
4.to choke up: to glut a channel.
–verb (used without object)
5.to eat to satiety or to excess.
–noun
6.a full supply.
7.an excessive supply or amount; surfeit.
8.an act of glutting or the state of being glutted.

[Origin: 1275–1325; ME gluten, back formation from glutun glutton1]

glut·ting·ly, adverb

1. surfeit, stuff, satiate. 5. gorge, cram. 7. surplus, excess, superabundance.
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glut       (glŭt)  Pronunciation Key 
v.   glut·ted, glut·ting, gluts

v.   tr.
  1. To fill beyond capacity, especially with food; satiate.
  2. To flood (a market) with an excess of goods so that supply exceeds demand.

v.   intr.
To eat or indulge in something excessively.

n.   An oversupply.


[Middle English glotten, probably from Old French glotoiier, to eat greedily, from Latin gluttīre.]

Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
glut  (v.)
c.1315, "to swallow too much, to feed to repletion," probably from O.Fr. gloter "to swallow, gulp down," from L. gluttire "swallow, gulp down," from PIE base *glu- "to swallow" (cf. Rus. glot "draught, gulp"). The noun (1533), from the verb, originally meant "a gulp;" meaning "condition of being full or sated" is 1579; mercantile sense is first recorded 1594.

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glut

noun
1. the quality of being so overabundant that prices fall 

verb
1. overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself; "She stuffed herself at the dinner"; "The kids binged on ice cream" [syn: gorge
2. supply with an excess of; "flood the market with tennis shoes"; "Glut the country with cheap imports from the Orient" [syn: flood

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

Glut

Glut\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Glutted; p. pr. & vb. n. Glutting.] [OE. glotten, fr. OF. glotir, gloutir, L. glutire, gluttire; cf. Gr. ? to eat, Skr. gar. Cf. Gluttion, Englut.]

1. To swallow, or to swallow greedlly; to gorge.

Though every drop of water swear against it, And gape at widest to glut him. --Shak.

2. To fill to satiety; to satisfy fully the desire or craving of; to satiate; to sate; to cloy.

His faithful heart, a bloody sacrifice, Torn from his breast, to glut the tyrant's eyes. --Dryden.

The realms of nature and of art were ransacked to glut the wonder, lust, and ferocity of a degraded populace. --C. Kingsley.

To glut the market, to furnish an oversupply of any article of trade, so that there is no sale for it.

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Glut

Glut\, v. i. To eat gluttonously or to satiety.

Like three horses that have broken fence, And glutted all night long breast-deep in corn. --Tennyson.

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Glut

Glut\, n. 1. That which is swallowed. --Milton

2. Plenty, to satiety or repletion; a full supply; hence, often, a supply beyond sufficiency or to loathing; over abundance; as, a glut of the market.

A glut of those talents which raise men to eminence. --Macaulay.

3. Something that fills up an opening; a clog.

4. (a) A wooden wedge used in splitting blocks. [Prov. Eng.] (b) (Mining) A piece of wood used to fill up behind cribbing or tubbing. --Raymond. (c) (Bricklaying) A bat, or small piece of brick, used to fill out a course. --Knight. (d) (Arch.) An arched opening to the ashpit of a klin. (e) A block used for a fulcrum.

5. (Zo["o]l.) The broad-nosed eel (Anguilla latirostris), found in Europe, Asia, the West Indies, etc.

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