GLUTTING
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
glutting
present participle of glut
Noun
glutting (plural gluttings)
The act by which something is glutted; a satiation.
Anagrams
• guttling
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