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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

GLUT, v.i. [L. glutio, Low L. gluto, a glutton.]
1. To swallow, or to swallow greedily; to gorge.
2. To cloy; to fill beyond sufficiency; to sate; to disgust; as, to glut the appetites.
3. To feast or delight even to satiety.
His faithful heart, a bloody sacrifice,
Torn from his breast, to glut the tyrant's eyes.
4. To fill or furnish beyond sufficiency; as, to glut the market.
5. To saturate.
GLUT, n. That which is swallowed.
1. Plenty even to loathing.
He shall find himself miserable, even in the very glut of his delights.
A glut of study and retirement.
2. More than enough; superabundance.
3. Any thing that fills or obstructs the passage.
4. A wooden wedge.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: the quality of being so overabundant that prices fall [syn: glut, oversupply, surfeit] v
1: 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]
2: supply with an excess of; "flood the market with tennis shoes"; "Glut the country with cheap imports from the Orient" [syn: flood, oversupply, glut]

Merriam Webster's

I. verb (glutted; glutting) Etymology: Middle English glouten, probably from Anglo-French glutir to swallow, from Latin gluttire — more at glutton Date: 14th century transitive verb 1. to fill especially with food to satiety 2. to flood (the market) with goods so that supply exceeds demand intransitive verb to eat gluttonously Synonyms: see satiate II. noun Date: circa 1546 1. an excessive quantity ; oversupply 2. archaic the act or process of glutting III. transitive verb (glutted; glutting) Etymology: probably from obsolete glut, noun, swallow Date: 1600 archaic to swallow greedily

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v. & n. --v.tr. (glutted, glutting) 1 feed (a person, one's stomach, etc.) or indulge (an appetite, a desire, etc.) to the full; satiate; cloy. 2 fill to excess; choke up. 3 Econ. overstock (a market) with goods. --n. 1 Econ. supply exceeding demand; a surfeit (a glut in the market). 2 full indulgence; one's fill. Etymology: ME prob. f. OF gloutir swallow f. L gluttire: cf. GLUTTON

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Glut Glut, 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. Though every drop of water swear against it, And gape at widest to glut him. --Shak. 2. To fill to satiety; to satisfy fully the desire or craving of; to satiate; to sate; to cloy. His faithful heart, a bloody sacrifice, Torn from his breast, to glut the tyrant's eyes. --Dryden. The realms of nature and of art were ransacked to glut the wonder, lust, and ferocity of a degraded populace. --C. Kingsley. To glut the market, to furnish an oversupply of any article of trade, so that there is no sale for it.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Glut Glut, v. i. To eat gluttonously or to satiety. Like three horses that have broken fence, And glutted all night long breast-deep in corn. --Tennyson.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Glut Glut, n. 1. That which is swallowed. --Milton 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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(gluts, glutting, glutted) 1. If there is a glut of something, there is so much of it that it cannot all be sold or used. There's a glut of agricultural products in Western Europe. ...a world oil glut. = surplus N-COUNT: usu sing, usu with supp 2. If a market is glutted with something, there is a glut of that thing. (BUSINESS) The region is glutted with hospitals... Soldiers returning from the war had glutted the job market. VERB: be V-ed with n, V n

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

I. v. a. 1. Cloy, satiate, sate, surfeit, pall. 2. Gorge, stuff, cram, overfeed, fill full, fill to repletion. II. n. 1. Repletion. 2. Superabundance, over-abundance, overplus, surplus, redundancy, superfluity, over-stock.

Moby Thesaurus

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