'GLUT' definitions:
Definition of 'glut'
(from WordNet)
noun
The quality of being so overabundant that prices fall [syn: glut, oversupply, surfeit]
verb
Overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself; "She stuffed herself at the dinner"; "The kids binged on ice cream" [syn: gorge, ingurgitate, overindulge, glut, englut, stuff, engorge, overgorge, overeat, gormandize, gormandise, gourmandize, binge, pig out, satiate, scarf out]
verb
Supply with an excess of; "flood the market with tennis shoes"; "Glut the country with cheap imports from the Orient" [syn: flood, oversupply, glut]
Definition of 'Glut'
From: GCIDE
- Glut \Glut\, v. i. To eat gluttonously or to satiety. [1913 Webster]
- Like three horses that have broken fence, And glutted all night long breast-deep in corn. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Glut'
From: GCIDE
- Glut \Glut\, n.
- 1. That which is swallowed. --Milton [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- A glut of those talents which raise men to eminence. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Something that fills up an opening; a clog. [1913 Webster]
- 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 kiln. (e) A block used for a fulcrum. [1913 Webster]
- 5. (Zool.) The broad-nosed eel (Anguilla latirostris), found in Europe, Asia, the West Indies, etc. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Glut'
From: GCIDE
- Glut \Glut\ (gl[u^]t), 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. [1913 Webster]
- Though every drop of water swear against it, And gape at widest to glut him. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To fill to satiety; to satisfy fully the desire or craving of; to satiate; to sate; to cloy. [1913 Webster]
- His faithful heart, a bloody sacrifice, Torn from his breast, to glut the tyrant's eyes. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- The realms of nature and of art were ransacked to glut the wonder, lust, and ferocity of a degraded populace. --C. Kingsley. [1913 Webster]
- To glut the market, to furnish an oversupply of any article of trade, so that there is no sale for it. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'glut'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- allay,
- batten,
- be infinitely repetitive,
- be tedious,
- bellyful,
- bolt,
- bolt down,
- choke,
- clog,
- cloy,
- congest,
- congestion,
- cram,
- crowd,
- deluge,
- devour,
- drag on,
- drench,
- engorge,
- engorgement,
- excess,
- fatigue,
- feast,
- fill,
- fill up,
- flood,
- fullness,
- glutting,
- gluttonize,
- go on forever,
- gobble,
- gorge,
- gormandize,
- gulp,
- gulp down,
- guttle,
- guzzle,
- hyperemia,
- inundate,
- irk,
- jade,
- jam,
- jam-pack,
- live to eat,
- more than enough,
- nimiety,
- overbrimming,
- overburden,
- overcharge,
- overdose,
- overfeed,
- overfill,
- overflow,
- overfreight,
- overfullness,
- overgorge,
- overlade,
- overload,
- oversaturate,
- overspill,
- overstock,
- overstuff,
- oversupply,
- overweight,
- pack,
- pall,
- plethora,
- raven,
- repletion,
- sate,
- satiate,
- satiation,
- satiety,
- satisfaction,
- satisfy,
- saturate,
- saturatedness,
- saturation,
- saturation point,
- sicken,
- skinful,
- slake,
- snootful,
- soak,
- stall,
- stodge,
- stuff,
- superabundance,
- supercharge,
- superfluity,
- supersaturate,
- supersaturation,
- surcharge,
- surfeit,
- surplus,
- swamp,
- tire,
- tire to death,
- wear,
- wear on,
- weary,
- wolf,
- wolf down
Acronyms for 'glut'
From: V.E.R.A.
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