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glut 
[gluht] Pronunciation Key verb, glut·ted, glut·ting, noun
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[gluht] Pronunciation Key verb, glut·ted, glut·ting, noun –verb (used with object)
–verb (used without object)
–noun
| 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. |
| 5. | to eat to satiety or to excess. |
| 6. | a full supply. |
| 7. | an excessive supply or amount; surfeit. |
| 8. | an act of glutting or the state of being glutted. |
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glut·ting·ly, adverb
—Synonyms 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.
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.] |
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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
glut (v.)
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.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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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] |
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American Heritage New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition - Cite This Source - Share This
glut
glut
An oversupply of goods on the market.
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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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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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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