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

Example Sentences

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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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The glut of glizzies is never-ending because, contrary to L.A.’s reputation as a green-juice-guzzling collective of health fanatics, this is a hot dog city. Stephanie Breijo, Los Angeles Times, 30 Mar. 2025 Now out the other side of London’s glut of shows and starry events, Chung slipped into a wardrobe staple favorite, and held a little get together with some pals and industry peers at a neighborhood favorite. Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 26 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for glut
Recent Examples of Synonyms for glut
Noun
  • 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
Noun
  • McLagan traces this shift in reputation to the rise of slaughterhouses in England, which led to a greater availability of meat as well as an oversupply of perishable, hard-to-ship offal.
    Valerie Trapp, The Atlantic, 17 Apr. 2025
  • Indeed, veterans of the whisky world understand that turbulence and challenging periods are part of the whisky cycle, most notably seen during the whisky loch of the 1980s when distilleries had to close due to oversupply and falling demand.
    Mark Littler, Forbes.com, 11 Apr. 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
Noun
  • 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
Noun
  • 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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  • On April 28, Prime Minister Mark Carney's Liberal Party won a comeback election on a tide of anti-Trump sentiment.
    Cybele Mayes-Osterman, USA Today, 1 May 2025
  • Amid the crushing weight of history and with the sound of a large bandwagon frantically emptying across the city, Craig Berube is left to press on against the tide.
    Chris Johnston, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2025

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“Glut.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/glut. Accessed 3 May. 2025.

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