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5 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Glut \Glut\, 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. Though every drop of water swear against it And gape at widest to glut him --Shak. 2. To fill to satiety; to satisfy fully the desire or craving of to satiate; to sate; to cloy. His faithful heart, a bloody sacrifice, Torn from his breast, to glut the tyrant's eyes. --Dryden. The realms of nature and of art were ransacked to glut the wonder, lust, and ferocity of a degraded populace. --C. Kingsley. {To glut the market}, to furnish an oversupply of any article of trade so that there is no sale for it From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Glut \Glut\, v. i. To eat gluttonously or to satiety. Like three horses that have broken fence, And glutted all night long breast-deep in corn. --Tennyson. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Glut \Glut\, n. 1. That which is swallowed. --Milton 2. 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: glut n : the quality of being so overabundant that prices fall [syn: {oversupply}, {surfeit}] v : overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself [syn: {gorge}, {ingurgitate}, {overindulge}, {englut}, {stuff}, {engorge}, {overgorge}, {overeat}, {gormandize}, {gormandise}, {gourmandize}, {binge}, {pig out}, {satiate}, {scarf out}] [ant: {nibble}] From V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms 13 March 2001 [vera]: GLUT openGL Utility library Toolkit (OpenGL, GLU)
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