Found 6 hits - Term: glut, Database: *, Strategy: exact
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
glut \glut\ glu^t, 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.
1913 webster
though every drop of water swear against it,
and gape at widest to glut him. --shak.
1913 webster
2. to fill to satiety; to satisfy fully the desire or craving
of; to satiate; to sate; to cloy.
1913 webster
his faithful heart, a bloody sacrifice,
torn from his breast, to glut the tyrant's eyes.
--dryden.
1913 webster
the realms of nature and of art were ransacked to
glut the wonder, lust, and ferocity of a degraded
populace. --c. kingsley.
1913 webster
to glut the market, to furnish an oversupply of any article
of trade, so that there is no sale for it.
1913 webster
see also:
glutted glutting gluttion englut to glut the market
- [2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
glut \glut\, v. i.
to eat gluttonously or to satiety.
1913 webster
like three horses that have broken fence,
and glutted all night long breast-deep in corn.
--tennyson.
1913 webster
- [3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
glut \glut\, n.
1. that which is swallowed. --milton
1913 webster
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.
1913 webster
a glut of those talents which raise men to eminence.
--macaulay.
1913 webster
3. something that fills up an opening; a clog.
1913 webster
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 kiln.
e a block used for a fulcrum.
1913 webster
5. zool. the broad-nosed eel anguilla latirostris,
found in europe, asia, the west indies, etc.
1913 webster
see also:
anguilla latirostris
- [4] : WordNet (r) 2.0
glut
n : the quality of being so overabundant that prices fall syn:
oversupply, surfeit
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
see also:
oversupply surfeit gorge ingurgitate overindulge englut
stuff engorge overgorge overeat gormandize
gormandise gourmandize binge pig out satiate
scarf out flood glutting glutted
- [5] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
103 moby thesaurus words for "glut":
allay, batten, be infinitely repetitive, be tedious, bellyful,
bolt, bolt down, choke, clog, cloy, congest, congestion, cram,
crowd, deluge, devour, drag on, drench, engorge, engorgement,
excess, fatigue, feast, fill, fill up, flood, fullness, glutting,
gluttonize, go on forever, gobble, gorge, gormandize, gulp,
gulp down, guttle, guzzle, hyperemia, inundate, irk, jade, jam,
jam-pack, live to eat, more than enough, nimiety, overbrimming,
overburden, overcharge, overdose, overfeed, overfill, overflow,
overfreight, overfullness, overgorge, overlade, overload,
oversaturate, overspill, overstock, overstuff, oversupply,
overweight, pack, pall, plethora, raven, repletion, sate, satiate,
satiation, satiety, satisfaction, satisfy, saturate, saturatedness,
saturation, saturation point, sicken, skinful, slake, snootful,
soak, stall, stodge, stuff, superabundance, supercharge,
superfluity, supersaturate, supersaturation, surcharge, surfeit,
surplus, swamp, tire, tire to death, wear, wear on, weary, wolf,
wolf down
- [6] : Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002)
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