Glutting

3 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 WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  glutting
       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}]