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GLUTTED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does glutted mean?
• GLUTTED (adjective)
The adjective GLUTTED has 1 sense:
1. exceeding demand
Familiarity information: GLUTTED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Exceeding demand
Synonyms:
glutted; overfull
Context example:
a glutted market
Similar:
full (containing as much or as many as is possible or normal)
Context examples
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)
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)
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