glut Meaning, Definition & Usage

noun the quality of being so overabundant that prices fall
oversupply; surfeit.
verb overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself
engorge; gormandize; gormandise; overgorge; overeat; satiate; englut; stuff; ingurgitate; overindulge; gorge; scarf out; gourmandize; binge; pig out.
- She stuffed herself at the dinner
- The kids binged on ice cream
verb supply with an excess of
flood; oversupply.
- flood the market with tennis shoes
- Glut the country with cheap imports from the Orient

OE. glotten, fr. OF. glotir, gloutir, L. glutire, gluttire; cf. Gr. to eat, Skr. gar. Cf. Gluttion, Englut.

imperfect & past participle Glutted; present participle & verbal noun Glutting

To swallow, or to swallow greedlly; to gorge.
Though every drop of water swear against it, And gape at widest to glut him. Shak.
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 eat gluttonously or to satiety.
Like three horses that have broken fence, And glutted all night long breast-deep in corn. Tennyson.

That which is swallowed. Milton
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. Macaulay.
Something that fills up an opening; a clog.
(a) A wooden wedge used in splitting blocks. Prov. Eng. (b) (Mining) A piece of wood used to fill up behind cribbing or tubbing. Raymond. (c) (Bricklaying) A bat, or small piece of brick, used to fill out a course. Knight. (d) (Arch.) An arched opening to the ashpit of a klin. (e) A block used for a fulcrum.
(Zoöl.) The broad-nosed eel (Anguilla latirostris), found in Europe, Asia, the West Indies, etc.