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Pronunciation : Glut
Part of Speech : v.
Etymology : [OE. glotten, fr. OF. glotir, gloutir, L. glutire, gluttire; cf. Gr. gar. Cf. Gluttion, Englut.]
Definition : 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.

t. [imp. & p. p. Glutted; p. pr. & vb. n. Glutting.]
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

Pronunciation : Glut
Part of Speech : v.
Definition : Defn: To eat gluttonously or to satiety. Like three horses that have broken fence, And glutted all night long breast-deep in corn. Tennyson.

i.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

Pronunciation : Glut
Part of Speech : n.
Definition : 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. A glut of those talents which raise men to eminence. Macaulay.

3. Something that fills up an opening; a clog.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913