GLUT (glutted, glutting)

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Irregular inflected forms: glutted    , glutting   

 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

2. supply with an excess of

  Familiarity information: GLUT used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GLUT (noun)

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)

• GLUT (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they glut    ... he / she / it gluts   
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)