glut : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: glut	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for glut
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
glut n the quality of being so overabundant that prices fall [syn: glut, oversupply, surfeit] v overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself; "She stuffed herself at the dinner"; "The kids binged on ice cream" Synonym(s): gorge, ingurgitate, overindulge, glut, englut, stuff, engorge, overgorge, overeat, gormandize, gormandise, gourmandize, binge, pig out, satiate, scarf out supply with an excess of; "flood the market with tennis shoes"; "Glut the country with cheap imports from the Orient" Synonym(s): flood, oversupply, glut
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.