Word Meanings - GLUT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To swallow, or to swallow greedlly; to gorge. Though every drop of water swear against it, And gape at widest to glut him. Shak. 2. To fill to satiety; to satisfy fully the desire or craving of; to satiate; to sate; to cloy. His faithful heart,

Additional info about word: GLUT

1. To swallow, or to swallow greedlly; to gorge. Though every drop of water swear against it, And gape at widest to glut him. Shak. 2. To fill to satiety; to satisfy fully the desire or craving of; to satiate; to sate; to cloy. His faithful heart, a bloody sacrifice, Torn from his breast, to glut the tyrant's eyes. Dryden. The realms of nature and of art were ransacked to glut the wonder, lust, and ferocity of a degraded populace. C. Kingsley. To glut the market, to furnish an oversupply of any article of trade, so that there is no sale for it.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of GLUT)

• Fill
• Replenish
• content
• supply
• satisfy
• gorge
• glut
• occupy
• appoint
• stuff
• store
• rise
• swell
• grow
• expand
• increase
• Gloat
• Revel
• feast
• Pamper
• Feed
• spoil
• indulge
• cocker
• Sate
• Satiate
• surfeit
• Surfeit
• Superabundance
• excess
• nimiety
• plethora

Related words: (words related to GLUT)

• STORER
  One who lays up or forms a store.
• CONTENTMENT
  1. The state of being contented or satisfied; content. Contentment without external honor is humility. Grew. Godliness with contentment is great gain. 1 Tim. vi. 6. 2. The act or process of contenting or satisfying; as, the contentment of avarice
• GORGEOUS
  Imposing through splendid or various colors; showy; fine; magnificent. Cloud-land, gorgeous land. Coleridge. Gogeous as the sun at midsummer. Shak. -- Gor"geous*ly, adv. -- Gor"geous*ness, n. (more info) luxurious; cf. OF. gorgias ruff,
• CONTENTLY
  In a contented manner.
• SUPPLYMENT
  A supplying or furnishing; supply. Shak.
• REVELLENT
  Causing revulsion; revulsive. -- n.
• PAMPERER
  One who, or that which, pampers. Cowper.
• REVEL
  See REVEAL
• CONTENTIOUS
  Contested; litigated; litigious; having power to decide controversy. Contentious jurisdiction , jurisdiction over matters in controversy between parties, in contradistinction to voluntary jurisdiction, or that exercised upon matters not opposed
• REPLENISHMENT
  1. The act of replenishing, or the state of being replenished. 2. That which replenishes; supply. Cowper.
• INDULGEMENT
  Indulgence. Wood.
• FEAST
  festival, F. fête, fr. L. festum, pl. festa, fr. festus joyful, 1. A festival; a holiday; a solemn, or more commonly, a joyous, anniversary. The seventh day shall be a feast to the Lord. Ex. xiii. 6. Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year
• GORGET
  A crescent-shaped, colored patch on the neck of a bird or mammal. Gorget hummer , a humming bird of the genus Trochilus. See Rubythroat. (more info) 1. A piece of armor, whether of chain mail or of plate, defending the throat and upper part of
• SUPPLY
  LL. suppletare, from L. supplere, suppletum; sub under + plere to 1. To fill up, or keep full; to furnish with what is wanted; to afford, or furnish with, a sufficiency; as, rivers are supplied by smaller streams; an aqueduct supplies an artificial
• REVELATION
  1. The act of revealing, disclosing, or discovering to others what was before unknown to them. 2. That which is revealed. The act of revealing divine truth. That which is revealed by God to man; esp., the Bible. By revelation he made known unto
• APPOINTER
  One who appoints, or executes a power of appointment. Kent.
• STORED
  Collected or accumulated as a reserve supply; as, stored electricity. It is charged with stored virtue. Bagehot.
• SWELLTOAD
  A swellfish.
• APPOINTMENT
  The exercise of the power of designating (under a "power of appointment") a person to enjoy an estate or other specific property; also, the instrument by which the designation is made. 6. Equipment, furniture, as for a ship or an army; whatever
• INDULGENCE
  Remission of the temporal punishment due to sins, after the guilt of sin has been remitted by sincere repentance; absolution from the censures and public penances of the church. It is a payment of the debt of justice to God by the application of
• REINCREASE
  To increase again.
• REGORGE
  1. To vomit up; to eject from the stomach; to throw back. Hayward. 2. To swallow again; to swallow back. Tides at highest mark regorge the flood. DRyden.
• UPSWELL
  To swell or rise up.
• REAPPOINT
  To appoint again.
• COUPE-GORGE
  Any position giving the enemy such advantage that the troops occupying it must either surrender or be cut to pieces. Farrow.
• PREAPPOINTMENT
  Previous appointment.