Glut v. t. [imp. & p. p. Glutted; p. pr. & vb. n. Glutting.]
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.
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]
glutted
adj : exceeding demand; "a glutted market" [syn: overfull]