glutting
glutting is the present participle and gerund of glut.
Meaning of glut
Verb
glut (third-person singular simple present gluts, present participle glutting, simple past and past participle glutted)
- To fill to capacity; to satisfy all demand or requirement; to sate.
- to glut one's appetite
- To provide (a market) with so much of a product that the supply greatly exceeds the demand.
- To eat gluttonously or to satiety.
- And then we stroll'd / From room to room: in each we sat, we heard / The grave Professor. [...] / Till like three horses that have broken fence, / And glutted all night long breast-deep in corn, / We issued gorged with knowledge, [...]1847, Alfred Tennyson, “Part II”, in The Princess: A Medley, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 42
Noun
glutting (plural gluttings)
- The act by which something is glutted; a satiation.
Forms of glutting
| plural | gluttings |
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Questions about glutting
- What does glutting mean?
- Glutting means the act by which something is glutted; a satiation.
- What is glutting the present participle and gerund of?
- Glutting is the present participle and gerund of glut.
- What part of speech is glutting?
- Glutting is a noun.
- What is the plural of glutting?
- The plural of glutting is gluttings.
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