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Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Glut \Glut\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Glutted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Glutting}.] [OE. glotten, fr. OF. glotir, gloutir, L.
   glutire, gluttire; cf. Gr. ? to eat, Skr. 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 \Glut\, v. i.
   To eat gluttonously or to satiety.

         Like three horses that have broken fence, And glutted
         all night long breast-deep in corn.      --Tennyson.

Glut \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.

Source : WordNet®

glut
     n : the quality of being so overabundant that prices fall [syn:
         {oversupply}, {surfeit}]
     [also: {glutting}, {glutted}]

glut
     v 1: overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself; "She
          stuffed herself at the dinner"; "The kids binged on
          icecream" [syn: {gorge}, {ingurgitate}, {overindulge}, {englut},
           {stuff}, {engorge}, {overgorge}, {overeat}, {gormandize},
           {gormandise}, {gourmandize}, {binge}, {pig out}, {satiate},
           {scarf out}]
     2: supply with an excess of; "flood the market with tennis
        shoes"; "Glut the country with cheap imports from the
        Orient" [syn: {flood}, {oversupply}]
     [also: {glutting}, {glutted}]
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