glut
Collocations
4ADJ.
cheap, premier
VERB + GLUT
bemoaned, imports, let, ransacked
GLUT + NOUN
appetite, capital, cotton, goods, one's, talents, words
ADV.
often
Definitions
noun
An excess, too much.
a glut of the market
A glut of those talents which raise men to eminence.
That which is swallowed.
And all their entrails tore, disgorging foul / Their devilish glut, […]
Something that fills up an opening.
A wooden wedge used in splitting blocks.
The white oak is laid on the ground, then rived down the middle using first an axe to create the split in the end grain, then a maul to hammer "gluts" — iron or wooden wedges — down the log's length to split it apart.
A piece of wood used to fill up behind cribbing or tubbing.
verb
To fill to capacity; to satisfy all demand or requirement; to sate.
to glut one's appetite
Come Kings and Baſſoes, let vs glut our ſwords That thirſt to drinke the feeble Perſeans blood.
To provide (a market) with so much of a product that the supply greatly exceeds the demand.
To eat gluttonously or to satiety.
And then we stroll'd / From room to room: in each we sat, we heard / The grave Professor. [...] / Till like three horses that have broken fence, / And glutted all night long breast-deep in corn, / We issued gorged with knowledge, [...]
Thesaurus
Synonyms
noun — the quality of being so overabundant that prices fall
verb — supply with an excess of
Antonyms
Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
6a glut of the market
WiktionaryA glut of those talents which raise men to eminence.
WiktionaryIndeed, it was clear from the outset that anyone hoping for a repeat of last weekend's Premier League goal glut would have to look beyond St Andrew's.
Wiktionaryto glut one's appetite
WiktionaryCome Kings and Baſſoes, let vs glut our ſwords That thirſt to drinke the feeble Perſeans blood.
Wiktionary[T]he realms of nature and of art were ransacked to glut the wonder, lust, and ferocity of a degraded populace.
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