overglut
overglut verb: to glut excessively.
Verb
overglut (third-person singular simple present overgluts, present participle overglutting, simple past and past participle overglutted)
- To glut excessively.
- to overglut the market
Noun
overglut (countable and uncountable, plural overgluts)
- An excessive glut; an oversupply.
- Theſe Companies keep up the Price of our Commodities abroad, by avoiding an over Glut of our Commodities in Places whereto they trade.1604, Journals of the Houſe of Commons, page 219
- […]ſo, where there happens to be an over-glut of phlegm in the ſtomach, this medicine given, becomes accidentally the means of letting that looſe in like manner, and thereby of over-chilling the blood[…]1756, John Woodward, The London Magazine, or, Gentleman's Monthly Intelligencer, volume 25, page 541
Examples of overglut in a sentence
- Depending on peaches and fruit of that description, the overglut of the market was such that they lost their crop.1917, George H. Brownwell, editor, Annual Reports of the Michigan Dairymen's Association: For 1912, 1913, 1914, 1915, 1916 and 1917, page...
- With its sensationalized trivia, the mass media overglut obscures fundamental issues that do merit concern, such as preserving the environment or feeding the starving.1999, Jeff Davidson, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Managing Your Time, 2nd edition, page 29:
Forms of overglut
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | overgluts |
| present participle | overglutting |
| past participle | overglutted |
| past | overglutted |
| Noun | |
| plural | overgluts |
Origin of overglut
over- + glut
Questions about overglut
- What does overglut mean?
- Overglut means to glut excessively.
- How do you use overglut in a sentence?
- Depending on peaches and fruit of that description, the overglut of the market was such that they lost their crop.
- What part of speech is overglut?
- Overglut can be a verb or a noun.
- What is the past tense of overglut?
- The past tense of overglut is overglutted.
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