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Another word for glut

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Verb

  1. To satisfy to the full or to excess

    See also:

    full

    excess

Noun

  1. An amount or quantity beyond what is needed, desired, or appropriate

    See also:

    excess

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Another word for glut

Noun
  1. See also:

    excess

Verb

  1. To oversupply

    Antonyms:

  2. To eat to satiety

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Sentence Examples

  • In the last part the publisher announces that it will be continued " as soon as ever the glut of news is a little over."

  • Research recipes and preserving methods in case you should get a glut of vegetables.

  • Wheat was so great a glut in the market that various methods were devised for feeding it to stock, a purpose for which it is not specially suited; in thus utilizing the grain, however, a smaller loss was often incurred than in sending it to market.

  • The grape glut is a real issue and many producers are dismayed at seeing prices drop.

  • The non-importation sentiment preceding the War of Independence fostered home manufactures considerably, and the Embargo and Non-Intercourse Acts before the war of 1812, as well as that war itself (despite the subsequent glut of British goods) had a much greater effect; for they mark the introduction of the factory system, which by 1830 was firmly established in the textile industry and was rapidly transforming other industries.

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