glut

[ gluht ]

/ glʌt /

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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.

OTHER WORDS FOR glut

1 surfeit, stuff, satiate.

5 gorge, cram.

7 surplus, excess, superabundance.

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Origin of glut

1275–1325; Middle English gluten, back formation from glutunglutton¹

OTHER WORDS FROM glut

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

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How to use glut in a sentence

The result is a bloated financial sector and recurring credit gluts.
You Are Funding Jamie Dimon's Salary|Ilana Glazer|February 22, 2013|DAILY BEAST
The mastiff mauls the bundle clumsily and gluts himself with growling greed, crunching the bones.
Ulysses|James Joyce
Plenty meant ruin to agriculturists, and commercial 'gluts' resulting in manufacturers' warehouses crammed with unsaleable goods.
The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3)|Leslie Stephen
If a rabbit makes along a blind burrow followed by a ferret, the former is killed, and the latter gluts itself upon the body.
Poachers and Poaching|John Watson

In one year the fruit-crop in a given neighbourhood is a failure: in another year it gluts the market.
What Is and What Might Be|Edmond Holmes
Much of this is hand work, and “gluts” or insertion pieces are generally preferred to overlapping joints.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 2|Various

British Dictionary definitions for glut

glut

/ (ɡlʌt) /

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 forms of glut

gluttingly, adverb

Word Origin for glut

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

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Cultural definitions for glut

glut

An oversupply of goods on the market.

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