The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.]
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To swallow, or to swallow greedlly; to gorge.
Though every drop of water swear against it, And gape at widest to glut him.
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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.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of glut English)
WordNet
See glut
n. the quality of being so overabundant that prices fall [syn: oversupply, surfeit]
v. overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself; "She stuffed herself at the dinner"; "The kids binged on icecream" [syn: gorge, ingurgitate, overindulge, englut, stuff, engorge, overgorge, overeat, gormandize, gormandise, gourmandize, binge, pig out, satiate, scarf out]
supply with an excess of; "flood the market with tennis shoes"; "Glut the country with cheap imports from the Orient" [syn: flood, oversupply]
Usage examples of "glutting".
He dwelt on the feel of being inside her, on her youth and strength, on the anticipation of his approaching release, not the infliction of pain, the glutting of appetite.
Baker’s zoo had broken out of their cells in the chaos and were raiding the cellar like bees glutting themselves with honey in an attacked hive.