glut
Speech parts
1. glut - Noun
2. glut - Verb
Meaning
To swallow, or to swallow greedlly; to gorge.
To fill to satiety; to satisfy fully the desire or craving of; to satiate; to sate; to cloy.
To eat gluttonously or to satiety.
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.
Something that fills up an opening; a clog.
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 klin.
The broad-nosed eel (Anguilla latirostris), found in Europe, Asia, the West Indies, etc.
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She stuffed herself at the dinner
The kids binged on ice cream
flood the market with tennis shoes
Glut the country with cheap imports from the Orient
A global savings glut — excessive saving worldwide, given available investment opportunities, a theory proposed by Ben S. Bernanke, the former Fed chairman, in explanation of low interest rates in the early 2000s.
Alberta's economy was negatively impacted by the 2015-2016 oil glut with a record high volume of worldwide oil inventories in storage, with global crude oil collapsing at near ten-year low prices.