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Definition

an excess supply

Much more rarely, glut can be used as a verb, as in "They glutted the market."

The city has a glut of office space.

Patients are easily confused by a glut of unvetted information on the Internet.
a glut of unsold inventory
Its electric doors whooshed open and a glut of passengers spilled out.
Ransom Riggs -- Hollow City
That terrible and deadly weapon was glutted in vengeance.
James Fenimore Cooper -- The Deerslayer
As for material of this sort, there was a glut of it always around Arthur.
Mark Twain -- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Childless thou art, childless remain: so Death Shall be deceived his glut, and with us two Be forced to satisfy his ravenous maw.
John Milton -- Paradise Lost
As predators, we have a glut of weapons in our physical arsenal — much, much more than really necessary.
Stephenie Meyer -- Twilight
Having left USC a few credits short, he had no college degree, a critical asset in a job market glutted with veterans and former war production workers.
Laura Hillenbrand -- Unbroken
Then I cried and cried, glutting my heart with joy and self-pity.
Amy Tan -- The Bonesetter's Daughter
The grass was overrun with Hitler Youths, parents, and a glut of brown-shirted leaders.
Markus Zusak -- The Book Thief
Given that the city had a population of just under 700,000, there was an obvious glut of addicts.
Wes Moore -- The Other Wes Moore
I could with pleasure have destroyed the cottage and its inhabitants and have glutted myself with their shrieks and misery.
Mary Shelley -- Frankenstein
Was I supposed to know there was going to be a glut?
Joseph Heller -- Catch-22
The cocaine was easy to come by, for the invention of crack coincided with a Colombian cocaine glut.
Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner -- Freakonomics
Feast your eyes, glut your soul on my cursed ugliness!
Gaston Leroux -- The Phantom of the Opera
Too soon the moment of ravenous identity is over, and the appetite for happiness, and happiness, and still more happiness is glutted.
Virginia Woolf -- The Waves
At first he was like a wild beast that has glutted itself; he was in a dull stupor of satisfaction.
Upton Sinclair -- The Jungle
My own lady never let me glut my eyes on my own son, but bled me to death first.
Homer -- The Odyssey
Record harvests nationwide and a flood of cheap imports from Canada created an enormous glut of potatoes.
Eric Schlosser -- Fast Food Nation

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