| v. t. | 1. | To swallow, or to swallow greedlly; to gorge. | |||
| 2. | To fill to satiety; to satisfy fully the desire or craving of; to satiate; to sate; to cloy. The realms of nature and of art were ransacked to glut the wonder, lust, and ferocity of a degraded populace.
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| v. i. | 1. | To eat gluttonously or to satiety. | |||
| n. | 1. | That which is swallowed. | |||
| 2. | Plenty, to satiety or repletion; a full supply; hence, often, a supply beyond sufficiency or to loathing; over abundance; | ||||
| 3. | Something that fills up an opening; a clog. | ||||
| 4. | (Mining) A wooden wedge used in splitting blocks. | ||||
| 5. | (Zool.) The broad-nosed eel (Anguilla latirostris), found in Europe, Asia, the West Indies, etc. | ||||
| Noun | 1. | glut - the quality of being so overabundant that prices fall Synonyms: oversupply, surfeit |
| Verb | 1. | glut - overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself; "She stuffed herself at the dinner"; "The kids binged on icecream" Synonyms: binge, englut, engorge, gorge, gormandise, gormandize, gourmandize, ingurgitate, overeat, overgorge, overindulge, pig out, scarf out, satiate, stuff |
| 2. | glut - supply with an excess of; "flood the market with tennis shoes"; "Glut the country with cheap imports from the Orient" Synonyms: oversupply, flood |
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