glut

1 of 3

verb (1)

glutted; glutting

transitive verb

1
: to flood (the market) with goods so that supply exceeds demand
The market is glutted with oil.
2
: to fill especially with food to satiety
glutted themselves at the restaurant buffet

glut

2 of 3

noun

1
: an excessive quantity : oversupply
a glut of oil on the market
2
archaic : the act or process of glutting

glut

3 of 3

verb (2)

glutted; glutting

transitive verb

archaic
: to swallow greedily
Choose the Right Synonym for glut

satiate, sate, surfeit, cloy, pall, glut, gorge mean to fill to repletion.

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

surfeit implies a nauseating repletion.

surfeited themselves with junk food

cloy stresses the disgust or boredom resulting from such surfeiting.

sentimental pictures that cloy after a while

pall emphasizes the loss of ability to stimulate interest or appetite.

a life of leisure eventually begins to pall

glut implies excess in feeding or supplying.

a market glutted with diet books

gorge suggests glutting to the point of bursting or choking.

gorged themselves with chocolate

Examples of glut in a Sentence

Verb (1) prefers not to watch those nature programs where all they show are predators glutting themselves on the kill Verb (2) it seemed that he could glut enough food to feed 10 men
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Verb
And while May is also a busy month for ESPN and TNT, which in late spring are glutted with live NBA and NHL playoff games, cable as a whole accounted for less than a quarter (24.1%) of all consumption last month. Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 20 June 2025 The risotto was impeccably cooked, each grain a plump oval glutted with crab stock and a compound butter infused with ginger, shallot Thai chile and tomato. Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 18 June 2025
Noun
That sets me apart from some of my colleagues, who fear that AI is accelerating a glut of superficial content, impeding critical thinking and hindering creative expression. Jeanne Beatrix Law, The Conversation, 7 May 2025 An author inevitably faces the threat of proportional imbalance: a glut of one (the tantalizing range of delicacies eaten) and want of the other (the nonprofessional life lived). Charlotte Druckman, New York Times, 14 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for glut

Word History

Etymology

Verb (1) and Noun

Middle English glouten, probably from Anglo-French glutir to swallow, from Latin gluttire — more at glutton

Verb (2)

probably from obsolete glut, noun, swallow

First Known Use

Verb (1)

14th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 2

Noun

circa 1546, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Verb (2)

1600, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of glut was in the 14th century

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Cite this Entry

“Glut.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/glut. Accessed 4 Jul. 2025.

Kids Definition

glut

1 of 2 verb
glutted; glutting
1
: to fill with food to the point of discomfort : stuff
2
: to flood with more goods than are needed
the market was glutted with fruit

glut

2 of 2 noun
: too much of something

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