glut

[gluht]

verb (used with object), glut·ted, glut·ting.

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.

verb (used without object), glut·ted, glut·ting.

to eat to satiety or to excess.

noun

a full supply.
an excessive supply or amount; surfeit.
an act of glutting or the state of being glutted.

Origin of glut

1275–1325; Middle English gluten, back formation from glutun glutton¹

Related formsglut·ting·ly, adverbo·ver·glut, verb (used with object), o·ver·glut·ted, o·ver·glut·ting.un·glut·ted, adjective

Synonyms for glut

1. surfeit, stuff, satiate. 5. gorge, cram. 7. surplus, excess, superabundance.

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Related Words for gluts

oversupply, saturation, surplus, plenitude, superfluity, surfeit, excess, nimiety, load, clog, overwhelm, jade, pall, cloy, fill, hog, overload, flood, sate, cram

Examples from the Web for gluts

Historical Examples of gluts

The boughs swung over them and swept them; the swamp-water was lifted, and gluts of it slapped in Flor's face.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865
Various
The grub that does not eat its fill remains small, while the one that gluts itself grows fat.
The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles
Jean Henri Fabre
Then, there was the theory of general "gluts," and of what is still denounced as over-production.
Social Rights and Duties, Volume I (of 2)
Sir Leslie Stephen
Cheapness caused by gluts of the market is merely a disease of clumsy and wanton commerce.
The Crown of Wild Olive
John Ruskin
With fruit in gluts, and dropping fast, the kiln was supplemented by scaffolds.
Dishes & Beverages of the Old South
Martha McCulloch Williams

British Dictionary definitions for gluts

glut

noun

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

verb gluts, glutting or glutted (tr)

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

Derived Formsgluttingly, adverb

Word Origin for glut

C14: probably from Old French gloutir, from Latin gluttīre; see glutton 1

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Word Origin and History for gluts

glut

1530s, "a gulp," from glut (v.). Meaning "condition of being full or sated" is 1570s; mercantile sense is first recorded 1590s.

glut

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.

gluts in Culture

glut

An oversupply of goods on the market.