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GLUT (glutted, glutting)
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Dictionary entry overview: What does glut mean?
• GLUT (noun)
The noun GLUT has 1 sense:
1. the quality of being so overabundant that prices fall
Familiarity information: GLUT used as a noun is very rare.
• GLUT (verb)
The verb GLUT has 2 senses:
1. overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself
Familiarity information: GLUT used as a verb is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of being so overabundant that prices fall
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
glut; oversupply; surfeit
Hypernyms ("glut" is a kind of...):
overabundance; overmuch; overmuchness; superabundance (a quantity that is more than what is appropriate)
Derivation:
glut (supply with an excess of)
Conjugation: |
Past simple: glutted
Past participle: glutted
-ing form: glutting
Sense 1
Meaning:
Overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself
Classified under:
Verbs of eating and drinking
Synonyms:
binge; englut; engorge; glut; gorge; gormandise; gormandize; gourmandize; ingurgitate; overeat; overgorge; overindulge; pig out; satiate; scarf out; stuff
Context example:
The kids binged on ice cream
Hypernyms (to "glut" is one way to...):
eat (eat a meal; take a meal)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s PP
Sense 2
Meaning:
Supply with an excess of
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Synonyms:
flood; glut; oversupply
Context example:
Glut the country with cheap imports from the Orient
Hypernyms (to "glut" is one way to...):
furnish; provide; render; supply (give something useful or necessary to)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody with something
Derivation:
glut (the quality of being so overabundant that prices fall)
Context examples
“If I don’t glut him within the five minutes, may I never see Shropshire again.”
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A few million years ago I knew what it was to sleep my fill and to awake naturally from very glut of sleep.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
I could with pleasure have destroyed the cottage and its inhabitants and have glutted myself with their shrieks and misery.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
My food is not that of man; I do not destroy the lamb and the kid to glut my appetite; acorns and berries afford me sufficient nourishment.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
But don’t expect that you’re goin’ to come here and get glutted by a middle-weight champion for nothing.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
If you will comply with my conditions, I will leave them and you at peace; but if you refuse, I will glut the maw of death, until it be satiated with the blood of your remaining friends.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
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