Glut

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  • intransitive verb. To fill beyond capacity, especially with food; satiate.
  • intransitive verb. To flood (a market) with an excess of goods so that supply exceeds demand.
  • intransitive verb. To eat or indulge in something excessively.
  • noun. An oversupply.
  • 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.
  • To choke or partially fill up, as an enginecylinder or condenser-tube by a carbonaceous deposit from inferior oils used in lubrication.
  • noun. 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.
  • noun. A glutton.
  • noun. A swallowing; that which has been swallowed.
  • noun. 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.
  • noun. The state of being glutted; a choking up by excess; an engorgement.
  • noun. A thick wooden wedge used for splitting blocks.
  • noun. 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.
  • noun. 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.—
  • noun. In brickmaking: A brick or block of small size, used to complete a course.
  • noun. A crude or green pressed brick. C. T. Davis, Bricks and Tiles, p. (69.—
  • noun. The broad-nosed eel, Anguilla latirostris.
  • noun. The offal or refuse of fish.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • intransitive verb. To eat gluttonously or to satiety.
  • transitive verb. To swallow, or to swallow greedlly; to gorge.
  • transitive verb. To fill to satiety; to satisfy fully the desire or craving of; to satiate; to sate; to cloy.
  • transitive verb. to furnish an oversupply of any article of trade, so that there is no sale for it.
  • noun. That which is swallowed.
  • noun. Plenty, to satiety or repletion; a full supply; hence, often, a supply beyond sufficiency or to loathing; over abundance.
  • noun. Something that fills up an opening; a clog.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A wooden wedge used in splitting blocks.
  • noun. A piece of wood used to fill up behind cribbing or tubbing.
  • noun. A bat, or small piece of brick, used to fill out a course.
  • noun. An arched opening to the ashpit of a kiln.
  • noun. A block used for a fulcrum.
  • noun. The broad-nosed eel (Anguilla latirostris), found in Europe, Asia, the West Indies, etc.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. an excess, too much
  • verb. To fill to capacity, to satisfy all requirement or demand, to sate.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. supply with an excess of
  • verb. overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself
  • noun. the quality of being so overabundant that prices fall
  • Word Usage
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    lack  shortage  
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    Hutt  Knut  abut  but  butt  
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    glutted  glutting  
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    gluts  glutted  glutting