glut 1 of 3

as in to stuff
to fill with food to capacity prefers not to watch those nature programs where all they show are predators glutting themselves on the kill

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glut

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verb (2)

archaic
as in to devour
to swallow or eat greedily it seemed that he could glut enough food to feed 10 men

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glut

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noun

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How is the word glut different from other verbs like it?

Some common synonyms of glut are cloy, gorge, pall, sate, satiate, and surfeit. While all these words mean "to fill to repletion," glut implies excess in feeding or supplying.

a market glutted with diet books

Where would cloy be a reasonable alternative to glut?

The synonyms cloy and glut are sometimes interchangeable, but cloy stresses the disgust or boredom resulting from such surfeiting.

sentimental pictures that cloy after a while

When is it sensible to use gorge instead of glut?

Although the words gorge and glut have much in common, gorge suggests glutting to the point of bursting or choking.

gorged themselves with chocolate

When is pall a more appropriate choice than glut?

The meanings of pall and glut largely overlap; however, pall emphasizes the loss of ability to stimulate interest or appetite.

a life of leisure eventually begins to pall

How are the words satiate and sate related as synonyms of glut?

Both satiate and sate may sometimes imply only complete satisfaction but more often suggest repletion that has destroyed interest or desire.

years of globe-trotting had satiated their interest in travel
readers were sated with sensationalistic stories

When can surfeit be used instead of glut?

While in some cases nearly identical to glut, surfeit implies a nauseating repletion.

surfeited themselves with junk food

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Recent Examples of glut
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Solar power and electrical charging Solar power glut boosts California electric bills. Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2024 Solar power and electrical charging Solar power glut boosts California electric bills. Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2024
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Chicago Blackhawks see trade for Spencer Knight as a net positive, despite glut of goalies. Phil Thompson, Chicago Tribune, 6 Mar. 2025 Having responsibility for all the prep, but no control over what fighters will actually do when facing a glut of enemies, can feel punishing, unfair, and only sometimes motivating to try something different. Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 5 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for glut
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  • The surplus with the U.S. ballooned to 9 trillion yen ($63 billion).
    Nicholas Creel, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Apr. 2025
  • Managing surplus energy for local businesses and municipalities In most data centers, servers are air-cooled.
    Erik Kobayashi-Solomon, Forbes.com, 17 Apr. 2025
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  • Is the Tequila boom over, and is the industry suffering from a massive oversupply of products?
    Joseph V Micallef, Forbes.com, 10 Apr. 2025
  • Decades after the Flexner Report, in 1980, policymakers anticipated a physician oversupply based on medical school enrollment projections and government investments in the medical workforce.
    Nicole McCann, The Conversation, 31 Mar. 2025
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  • Under Lightfoot, the district benefited from a surfeit of federal stimulus dollars that went to hiring.
    Jake Sheridan, Chicago Tribune, 4 Apr. 2025
  • There are plenty of period pieces on TV, too, with a surfeit of fun costumes and grand settings and now-foreign social rules.
    Kathryn VanArendonk, Vulture, 18 June 2024
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  • Despite having an overabundance of Harlequin romances, her Zion stock was full of genres for everyone’s reading tastes.
    Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 19 Feb. 2025
  • What’s happening within those impeccable compositions, however, feels like its suffering from an overabundance of business and undernourished storytelling.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 6 Mar. 2025
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  • In particular, smoking, vaping, drinking alcohol, skipping sleep, using recreational drugs (like marijuana), and downing a ton of sugar may all contribute to an excess of those free-wheeling free radicals and impair your body’s ability to defend against them.
    Erica Sloan, SELF, 18 Apr. 2025
  • Many retailers have likely rushed their orders to get ahead of these levies, which can lead to an excess of inventory and a need to liquidate for cash.
    Morgan Chittum, CNBC, 16 Apr. 2025
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  • The images aren’t only stripped of superfluities; they’re hermetically sealed off from anything that could impinge from offscreen ...
    Tim Lammers, Forbes, 25 Dec. 2024
  • Not business as usual The transition team has been grappling with an agency that has a superfluity of field centers—ten spread across the United States, as well as a formal headquarters in Washington, DC—and large, slow-moving programs that cost a lot of money and have been slow to deliver results.
    Ars Technica, Ars Technica, 23 Dec. 2024
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  • Arroyo memorializes ordinary buildings at risk of being swept up in the tide of gentrification in Miami through his paintings, while Simmons creates with concrete, fabric, acrylic, found objects and construction debris to form architectural sculptures and mixed media works.
    Patrick Connolly, The Orlando Sentinel, 18 Apr. 2025
  • This rising tide has been spurred in large part by billionaires, particularly Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and, to a lesser extent, Richard Branson.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 18 Apr. 2025

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“Glut.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/glut. Accessed 25 Apr. 2025.

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