glut
[gluht]
- to feed or fill to satiety; sate: to glut the appetite.
- to feed or fill to excess; cloy.
- to flood (the market) with a particular item or service so that the supply greatly exceeds the demand.
- to choke up: to glut a channel.
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- to eat to satiety or to excess.
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- a full supply.
- an excessive supply or amount; surfeit.
- an act of glutting or the state of being glutted.
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Origin of glut
Synonyms
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Related Words
oversupply, saturation, surplus, plenitude, superfluity, surfeit, excess, nimiety, load, clog, overwhelm, jade, pall, cloy, fill, hog, overload, flood, sate, cramExamples from the Web for glut
Contemporary Examples
But if Democrats are faced with the reality of a glut of qualified candidates, Republicans are assembling more of a fantasy team.
And given the current glut in fossil fuels, it might even be a better economic bet to wait a few years.
Tallinn feels palpably Scandinavian with its polished old-town brick, seaside positioning and glut of cool cafes.
But should you lack the energy to sift through the glut of options yourself, we can at least helpfully endorse this one.
On the other hand, there is, in fact, a glut of perfectly healthy and well-behaved dogs and cats that need homes.
Historical Examples
Expose thy naked and unprotected head to glut his vengeance.
ImogenWilliam Godwin
You may glut yourself with his suffering and feed fat your revenge.
Sir Henry Morgan, BuccaneerCyrus Townsend Brady
When there is a glut in the market, Jonathan, you know what happens.
The Common Sense of SocialismJohn Spargo
My employers are enough to glut your rage an' you were a tiger.
RienziEdward Bulwer Lytton
Periods of glut and want of work will be impossible in the new community.
British SocialismJ. Ellis Barker
glut
- an excessive amount, as in the production of a crop, often leading to a fall in price
- the act of glutting or state of being glutted
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- to feed or supply beyond capacity
- to supply (a market) with a commodity in excess of the demand for it
- to cram full or choke upto glut a passage
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Word Origin
C14: probably from Old French gloutir, from Latin gluttīre; see glutton 1
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Word Origin and History for glut
v.
early 14c., "to swallow too much; to feed to repletion," probably from Old French gloter "to swallow, gulp down," from Latin gluttire "swallow, gulp down," from PIE root *gwele- "to swallow" (cf. Russian glot "draught, gulp"). Related: Glutted; glutting.
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n.
1530s, "a gulp," from glut (v.). Meaning "condition of being full or sated" is 1570s; mercantile sense is first recorded 1590s.
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Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
glut
An oversupply of goods on the market.
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