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glutted

/gluht/US // glʌt //UK // (ɡlʌt) //

饕餮盛宴,饕餮的,饕餮,饕餮餮的

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
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    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

Examples

  • In April, the price of a barrel of oil even went negative for the first time ever in a fluky moment where a glut of futures contracts chased nonexistent bidders.

  • This glut of SPAC listings means that some of the new shell companies will be unable to find a suitable target to acquire—or will overpay for a mediocre firm, stiffing investors in the process.

  • The perceived NFL quarterback crisis from the mid-2010s has been replaced by a glut.

  • One of the more popular theories is the glut of games has pushed people to choose between watching Sunday Night Football or the NBA Finals.

  • While good times can mean that Encore collects on more debt than it expected, bad times typically bring a glut of people suffering under loans they cannot repay.

  • The tiger, on the contrary, though glutted with carnage, has still an insatiate thirst for blood; his rancour has no intervals.

  • They are equally indolent and cowardly, when glutted with prey; and they seldom attack men unless they find them asleep.

  • The truth is, I fear, that the market has been glutted and the business overdone.

  • He has killed many of his enemies; he has glutted his vengeance fully; he has drunk blood in plenteous draughts.

  • He drew a long breath to relieve his overburdened heart, and glutted his eyes in ecstasy on every side.