• IPA: /ɡlʌt/

glut (plural gluts)

1. An excess, too much.

   Synonyms: excess, overabundance, plethora, slew, surfeit, surplus

   Antonyms: lack, shortage

   a glut of the market

   • 18, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 11, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify ), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, OCLC 1069526323 ↗:

2. That which is swallowed.
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book VI”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: Printed [by Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […] [a]nd by Robert Boulter […] [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], OCLC 228722708 ↗; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: The Text Exactly Reproduced from the First Edition of 1667: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554 ↗, lines 588–589:

     And all their entrails tore, disgorging foul / Their devilish glut, [...]

3. Something that fills up an opening.

   Synonyms: clog

4. A wooden wedge used in splitting blocks.
5. (mining) A piece of wood used to fill up behind cribbing or tubbing.
6. (bricklaying) A bat, or small piece of brick, used to fill out a course.
7. (architecture) An arched opening to the ashpit of a kiln.
8. A block used for a fulcrum.
9. The broad-nosed eel (Anguilla anguilla, syn. Anguilla latirostris), found in Europe, Asia, the West Indies, etc.

• glutton
• gluttony

• German: Schwemme, Überfluss, Überschuss
• Italian: eccesso, pletora, scorpacciata, sazietà
• Russian: изли́шество

glut (gluts, present participle glutting; past glutted, past participle glutted)

1. (transitive) To fill to capacity, to satisfy all requirement or demand, to sate.

   to glut one's appetite

   • The realms of nature and of art were ransacked to glut the wonder, lust, and ferocity of a degraded populace.

2. (intransitive) To eat gluttonously or to satiety.
   • 1847, Alfred Tennyson, The Princess: A Medley, London: Edward Moxon, […], OCLC 2024748 ↗, (please specify ):

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     Like three horses that have broken fence, / And glutted all night long breast-deep in corn.

• German: auffüllen, sättigen, befriedigen, stillen
• Spanish: saciar

• Spanish: glotonear