glut

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glut / glət/ • n. an excessively abundant supply of something: there is a glut of cars on the market.• v. (glut·ted, glut·ting) [tr.] (usu. be glutted) supply or fill to excess: the factories for recycling paper are glutted he was glutting himself on junk food. ∎ archaic satisfy fully: he planned a treacherous murder to glut his desire for revenge.

glut

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glut feed to repletion. XIV. Earliest forms gloute, glotte, glotye, prob. — (O)F. gloutir swallow :- L. gluttīre (see GLUTTON).
Hence sb. XVI.

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