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glut

  [gluht] verb, glut⋅ted, glut⋅ting, noun
Use glut in a Sentence
–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 glutton 1

Related forms:
glut⋅ting⋅ly, adverb

Synonyms:
1. surfeit, stuff, satiate. 5. gorge, cram. 7. surplus, excess, superabundance.
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glut   (glŭt)   
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.]
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Cultural Dictionary

glut

An oversupply of goods on the market.

The American Heritage® New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition
Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Word Origin & History

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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