Glutted

7 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Glut \Glut\ (gl[u^]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Glutted}; p. pr. &
     vb. n. {Glutting}.] [OE. glotten, fr. OF. glotir, gloutir, L.
     glutire, gluttire; cf. Gr. ? to eat, Skr. gar. Cf.
     {Gluttion}, {Englut}.]
     1. To swallow, or to swallow greedlly; to gorge.
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              Though every drop of water swear against it,
              And gape at widest to glut him.       --Shak.
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     2. To fill to satiety; to satisfy fully the desire or craving
        of; to satiate; to sate; to cloy.
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              His faithful heart, a bloody sacrifice,
              Torn from his breast, to glut the tyrant's eyes.
                                                    --Dryden.
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              The realms of nature and of art were ransacked to
              glut the wonder, lust, and ferocity of a degraded
              populace.                             --C. Kingsley.
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     {To glut the market}, to furnish an oversupply of any article
        of trade, so that there is no sale for it.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  glutted \glutted\ adj.
     1. overfull; filled to excess. a glutted market
  
     Syn: overfull.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  glutted \glutted\ adj.
     overfull; filled to excess; as, a glutted market.
  
     Syn: overfull.
          [WordNet 1.5]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  glutted
       See {glut}

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  glutted
       adj : exceeding demand; "a glutted market" [syn: {overfull}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  62 Moby Thesaurus words for "glutted":
     allayed, bloated, bursting, choked, cloyed, congested, crammed,
     crowded, disgusted, distended, drenched, engorged, fed-up,
     filled to overflowing, full, full of, gorged, hyperemic, in spate,
     jaded, jam-packed, jammed, overblown, overburdened, overcharged,
     overfed, overflowing, overfraught, overfreighted, overfull,
     overgorged, overladen, overloaded, oversaturated, overstocked,
     overstuffed, oversupplied, overweighted, packed, plethoric,
     ready to burst, replete, running over, sated, satiate, satiated,
     satisfied, saturated, sick of, slaked, soaked, stuffed, stuffed up,
     supercharged, supersaturated, surcharged, surfeited, swollen,
     tired of, with a bellyful, with a snootful, with enough of