glut

Plural: gluts

Noun

• the quality of being so overabundant that prices fall
• An excess, too much.
• That which is swallowed.
• Something that fills up an opening.
• A wooden wedge used in splitting blocks.
• A piece of wood used to fill up behind cribbing or tubbing.
• A bat, or small piece of brick, used to fill out a course.
• An arched opening to the ashpit of a kiln.
• A block used for a fulcrum.
• The broad-nosed eel (Anguilla anguilla, syn. Anguilla latirostris), found in Europe, Asia, the West Indies, etc.
• Five goals scored by one player in a game.

Verb

Verb Forms: glutted, glutting, gluts

• To provide or fill to excess; oversupply.
• overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself
• supply with an excess of
  • "Glut the country with cheap imports from the Orient"
• To fill to capacity; to satisfy all demand or requirement; to sate.
• To provide (a market) with so much of a product that the supply greatly exceeds the demand.
• To eat gluttonously or to satiety.

Examples

• a glut of the market
• Don’t GLUT the board with short words; aim for longer, higher-scoring plays.
• to glut one's appetite

Synonyms

binge, englut, engorge, flood, gorge, gormandise, gormandize, gourmandize, ingurgitate, overeat, overgorge, overindulge, oversupply, pig out, satiate, scarf out, stuff, surfeit, clog, excess, overabundance, plethora, slew, surplus

Antonyms

lack, shortage

Related Words

glutton, gluttony