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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Glut v. t. [imp. & p. p. Glutted; p. pr. & vb. n. Glutting.]
 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.