Glut

[glʌt] or [ɡlʌt]

Definition

(noun.) the quality of being so overabundant that prices fall.

Typed by Ada--From WordNet

Definition

(v. t.) To swallow, or to swallow greedlly; to gorge.

(v. t.) To fill to satiety; to satisfy fully the desire or craving of; to satiate; to sate; to cloy.

(v. i.) To eat gluttonously or to satiety.

(n.) That which is swallowed.

(n.) 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.

(n.) Something that fills up an opening; a clog.

(n.) A wooden wedge used in splitting blocks.

(n.) A piece of wood used to fill up behind cribbing or tubbing.

(n.) A bat, or small piece of brick, used to fill out a course.

(n.) An arched opening to the ashpit of a klin.

(n.) A block used for a fulcrum.

(n.) The broad-nosed eel (Anguilla latirostris), found in Europe, Asia, the West Indies, etc.

Checked by Jerome

Synonyms and Synonymous

v. a. [1]. Cloy, satiate, sate, surfeit, pall.[2]. Gorge, stuff, cram, overfeed, fill full, fill to repletion.

n. [1]. Repletion.[2]. Superabundance, over-abundance, overplus, surplus, redundancy, superfluity, over-stock.

Checker: Rene

Synonyms and Antonyms

SYN:Gorge, fill, stuff, cram, satiate, cloy, surfeit

ANT:Disgorge, empty, void

SYN:Surplus, redundancy, superfluity, overstock

ANT:Scarcity, drainage, exhaustion, dearth, failure, scantiness

Edited by Greg

Definition

v.t. to swallow greedily: to feast to satiety: to supply in excess:—pr.p. glut′ting; pa.p. glut′ted.—n. an over-supply: anything that obstructs the passage.

Checker: Nellie