glut
Noun · VerbOpen English WordNet
Verb (2)glutted, glutting
- overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself“She stuffed herself at the dinner”“The kids binged on ice cream”Synonyms: gorgeingurgitateoverindulgeenglutstuffengorgeovergorgeovereatgormandizegormandisegourmandizebingepig outsatiatescarf outMore general eat
- supply with an excess of“flood the market with tennis shoes”“Glut the country with cheap imports from the Orient”Synonyms: floodoversupplyMore general supply, provide
Noun (1)
- the quality of being so overabundant that prices fallSynonyms: oversupplysurfeitType of overabundance, overmuch
What does it mean? Question 1 of today’s quiz
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: 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.— William Shakespeare
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.— John Dryden
The realms of nature and of art were ransacked to glut the wonder, lust, and ferocity of a degraded populace.— Charles Kingsley
To glut the market, to furnish an oversupply of any article of trade, so that there is no sale for it.
To eat gluttonously or to satiety.
Like three horses that have broken fence, And glutted all night long breast-deep in corn.— Alfred Tennyson
1. That which is swallowed. John 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.
A glut of those talents which raise men to eminence.— Thomas Babington Macaulay
3. Something that fills up an opening; a clog.
4. (a) A wooden wedge used in splitting blocks. dialect (England) (b) Mining A piece of wood used to fill up behind cribbing or tubbing. Raymond, Rossiter Worthington. (c) Bricklaying A bat, or small piece of brick, used to fill out a course. Knight, Edward Henry (d) Architecture An arched opening to the ashpit of a kiln. (e) A block used for a fulcrum.
5. Zoology The broad-nosed eel (Anguilla latirostris), found in Europe, Asia, the West Indies, etc.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54