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glut

/gluht/US // glʌt //UK // (ɡlʌt) //

饕餮盛宴,饕餮大餐,饕餮,饕餮之宴

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    glut·ted, glut·ting.

    • : to feed or fill to satiety; sate: to glut the appetite.
    • : to feed or fill to excess; cloy.
    • : to flood with a particular item or service so that the supply greatly exceeds the demand.
    • : to choke up: to glut a channel.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    glut·ted, glut·ting.

    • : to eat to satiety or to excess.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a full supply.
    • : an excessive supply or amount; surfeit.
    • : an act of glutting or the state of being glutted.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbchoke; oversupply
Forms: glutted

Examples

  • It is hard to argue that the plan to connect the Oregon coast via pipeline to the Canadian Rockies would do much for American frackers hit hard by an international energy glut.

  • Overproduction and overinvestment have created a supply glut that was suppressing oil prices even before the virus struck.

  • There’s a glut of environmental organizations out there and a lack of rigorous research on their impacts and cost-effectiveness, though that’s beginning to change with the arrival of new evaluators like Giving Green and ImpactMatters.

  • Indeed, since that last glut of media reviews in 2018, agencies have tried to recast themselves to keep pace with marketers’ expectations.

  • With price guarantees for certain crops, and the resultant glut of supply, the government sometimes paid farmers to plant fewer crops.

  • But if Democrats are faced with the reality of a glut of qualified candidates, Republicans are assembling more of a fantasy team.

  • And given the current glut in fossil fuels, it might even be a better economic bet to wait a few years.

  • Tallinn feels palpably Scandinavian with its polished old-town brick, seaside positioning and glut of cool cafes.

  • But should you lack the energy to sift through the glut of options yourself, we can at least helpfully endorse this one.

  • On the other hand, there is, in fact, a glut of perfectly healthy and well-behaved dogs and cats that need homes.

  • The plunder of the chauntries and the gilds failed to glut the appetite of this crew of spoilers.

  • By this regulation the intolerable glut of beaver-skins, which spoils the market, may be prevented.

  • These foreign girls bring their pretty faces here and glut the matrimonial market.

  • An Indian would have had to gluck and cluck and glut for half a minute to make these three words plain.

  • The treasure was plentiful enough to cause ‘a glut’ forthwith if many speculators engaged.