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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There is one story dominating the discussion around the Guest Actor and Guest Actress in a Comedy categories, and that’s been the glut of celebrities playing themselves on The Studio. Joe Reid, Vulture, 6 Sep. 2025 Surprising, at least, for those only just noticing the recent glut of tennis talent to emerge from the southern European nation. George Ramsay, CNN Money, 26 Aug. 2025
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Thanks to builder strategies, shifting home designs and a new construction glut the trend has flipped. Brandon Kochkodin, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025 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 See All Example Sentences for glut
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  • Abiy has said the dam will improve access to electricity for the almost half the population who had none as recently as 2022, and export the surplus to the region.
    CNN Money, CNN Money, 9 Sep. 2025
  • There is even a world in which Winnipeg’s best play is to forget about its surplus of veteran defencemen, giving Salomonsson third-pairing minutes as soon as this season.
    Murat Ates, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2025
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  • Faced with oversupply, QatarGas could decide to hold back some volumes — or push them on to the market at lower prices in a bid to incentivize demand and boost market share.
    Tim McDonnell, semafor.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • At the same time, many airlines are now rethinking their capacity plans as an oversupply of flights has weighed on fares and eaten into their profits this year.
    Leslie Josephs, CNBC, 2 Sep. 2025
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  • Maybe the nuns could be transformed into spa therapists at a wellness retreat and the toxin explained away as a surfeit of matcha.
    Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Lali is cheerful and spry, with a surfeit of energy—sprinting for no reason, flourishing her movements, meowing ten times in a row.
    Tao Lin, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
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  • This phenomenon is attributed to an overabundance of nutrient intake and the presence of invasive species such as crayfish and clams.
    Amelia Wu, Sacbee.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The boom has materialized thanks to an overabundance of solar panels available from neighboring China, which has been steadily ramping up its production of solar technology.
    Betsy Joles, NPR, 21 Aug. 2025
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  • In 1956, long before those flashy rhinestone jumpsuits, the infamous Jungle Room, and all the Vegas excess, Elvis was just a handsome, super-talented guy playing high schools and military bases along the Gulf coast.
    Josh Miller, Southern Living, 14 Sep. 2025
  • Panday plays a convincingly gruff tortured artist alongside Padda’s struggling ingenue, and most of the screen time is devoted to their pairing instead of introducing tertiary excess.
    Proma Khosla, IndieWire, 13 Sep. 2025
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  • The 6,500-square-foot three-story contemporary is minimalist in decor but teeming with superfluities, including an elevator, a first-floor gym, a screening room, an infrared sauna and a master-bedroom walk-in closet bigger (and tidier) than my SoHo apartment.
    Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 29 July 2025
  • After which, see its superfluity yet again relative to market entities that have long and capably filled central bank functions of providing near-term liquidity to the solvent, along with regulation to ensure sound operation based on those loans.
    John Tamny, Forbes.com, 6 July 2025
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  • Residing in London after fleeing Mexico City during the Second Franco-Mexican war, Gabriela is no longer content to wait for her father to inevitably summon her home now that the tide of the war is changing in Mexico’s favor.
    Mia Sosa, PEOPLE, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Maxar/Google Earth The Hague tribunal's 2016 ruling under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea classified Subi Reef as a low-tide elevation, not entitled to its own territorial sea or exclusive economic zone.
    Micah McCartney, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Sep. 2025

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“Glut.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/glut. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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