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GLUTTED
glutted, overfull
(adjective) exceeding demand; “a glutted market”
GLUT
gorge, ingurgitate, overindulge, glut, englut, stuff, engorge, overgorge, overeat, gormandize, gormandise, gourmandize, binge, pig out, satiate, scarf out
(verb) overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself; “She stuffed herself at the dinner”; “The kids binged on ice cream”
flood, oversupply, glut
(verb) supply with an excess of; “flood the market with tennis shoes”; “Glut the country with cheap imports from the Orient”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Verb
glutted
simple past tense and past participle of glut
Anagrams
• guttled
Source: Wiktionary
GLUT
Glut, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Glutted; p. pr. & vb. n. Glutting.] Etym: [OE. glotten, fr. OF. glotir, gloutir, L. glutire, gluttire; cf. Gr. gar. Cf. Gluttion, Englut.]
1. To swallow, or to swallow greedlly; to gorge. Though every drop of water swear against it, And gape at widest to glut him. Shak.
2. 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.
Glut, v. i.
Definition: To eat gluttonously or to satiety. Like three horses that have broken fence, And glutted all night long breast-deep in corn. Tennyson.
Glut, n.
1. That which is swallowed. Milton
2. 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.
3. Something that fills up an opening; a clog.
4. (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.
5. (Zoöl.)
Definition: The broad-nosed eel (Anguilla latirostris), found in Europe, Asia, the West Indies, etc.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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GREAT
(adjective) remarkable or out of the ordinary in degree or magnitude or effect; “a great crisis”; “had a great stake in the outcome”
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