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glut
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- pronunciation:
- gluht
- parts of speech:
- transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun
- features:
- Word Combinations (verb, noun)
| part of speech: |
transitive verb |
| inflections: |
gluts, glutting, glutted |
| definition 1: |
to supply (a market) with much more of a particular article than there is demand for.
The market was glutted with videocassette recorders.- synonyms:
- flood, oversupply, saturate
- similar words:
- clog, deluge, inundate, surfeit
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| definition 2: |
to fill with an excess, esp. of food.
He glutted himself at the holiday feast.- synonyms:
- gorge, overindulge, sate, satiate, surfeit
- similar words:
- cloy, cram, devour, engorge, fill, gormandize, guzzle, oversupply, stuff
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| related words: |
dump, load |
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| part of speech: |
intransitive verb |
| definition: |
to indulge in something, esp. food, to an excessive degree.
- synonyms:
- gorge, overindulge
- antonyms:
- stint
- similar words:
- binge, cram, fill, gobble, guzzle, overeat, stuff
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| related words: |
load |
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| part of speech: |
noun |
| definition 1: |
a greater supply or amount than is needed.
There was a glut of rice that year in Japan, and prices fell.- synonyms:
- overabundance, oversupply, plethora, surfeit, surplus
- antonyms:
- dearth
- similar words:
- excess, overload, redundancy, superfluity
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| definition 2: |
an act of glutting, or the condition of being glutted.
- synonyms:
- excess, satiety, surfeit
- similar words:
- bellyful, pig-out, repletion, saturation
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| related words: |
overweight |
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