Glut

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To fill beyond capacity, especially with food; satiate.
  • v. To flood (a market) with an excess of goods so that supply exceeds demand.
  • verb-intransitive. To eat or indulge in something excessively.
  • n. An oversupply.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. an excess, too much
  • v. To fill to capacity, to satisfy all requirement or demand, to sate.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To swallow, or to swallow greedlly; to gorge.
  • v. To fill to satiety; to satisfy fully the desire or craving of; to satiate; to sate; to cloy.
  • verb-intransitive. To eat gluttonously or to satiety.
  • n. That which is swallowed.
  • n. Plenty, to satiety or repletion; a full supply; hence, often, a supply beyond sufficiency or to loathing; over abundance.
  • n. Something that fills up an opening; a clog.
  • n.
  • n. A wooden wedge used in splitting blocks.
  • n. A piece of wood used to fill up behind cribbing or tubbing.
  • n. A bat, or small piece of brick, used to fill out a course.
  • n. An arched opening to the ashpit of a kiln.
  • n. A block used for a fulcrum.
  • n. The broad-nosed eel (Anguilla latirostris), found in Europe, Asia, the West Indies, etc.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To swallow; especially, to swallow greedily.
  • To fill to the extent of capacity; feast or delight to satiety; sate; gorge: as, to glut the appetite.
  • To saturate.
  • To feast to satiety; fill one's self to cloying.
  • n. A glutton.
  • n. A swallowing; that which has been swallowed.
  • n. More of something than is desired; a super-abundance; so much as to cause displeasure or satiety, etc.; specifically, in com., an over-supply of any commodity in the market; a supply above the demand.
  • n. The state of being glutted; a choking up by excess; an engorgement.
  • n. A thick wooden wedge used for splitting blocks.
  • n. Nautical: A piece of wood employed as a fulcrum in order to obtain a better lever-power in raising any body, or a piece of wood inserted beneath the thing to be raised in order to prevent its recoil when freshening the nip of the lever.
  • n. A becket or thimble fixed on the after side of a topsail or course, near the head, to which the bunt-jigger is hooked to assist in furling the sail.—
  • n. In brickmaking: A brick or block of small size, used to complete a course.
  • n. A crude or green pressed brick. C. T. Davis, Bricks and Tiles, p. (69.—
  • n. The broad-nosed eel, Anguilla latirostris.
  • n. The offal or refuse of fish.
  • To choke or partially fill up, as an enginecylinder or condenser-tube by a carbonaceous deposit from inferior oils used in lubrication.
  • n. A block, usually of bronze, in one face of which is a recess to receive the upset end of the valve- rod in a knuckle-joint. The glut is tightened by a wedge and screw, or by a key.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. supply with an excess of
  • v. overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself
  • n. the quality of being so overabundant that prices fall
  • Antonym
    shortage    lack   
    Verb Form
    gluts    glutted    glutting   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    furnish    provide    supply    render    eat    overmuch    overabundance    superabundance    overmuchness   
    Cross Reference
    Variant
    glutting    glutted   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    satiate    sate    cloy    clog    surfeit    oversupply    obstruct    plethora    slew    excess   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Hutt    Knut    abut    but    butt    cut    gut    haute    hut    jut   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    death-trap    birdman    satiation    andrent