Definitions for gluts

gluts glut

Spelling: [gluht]
IPA: /glʌt/

Gluts is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 49 anagrams from letters in gluts (glstu).

Definitions for gluts

noun

  1. a full supply.
  2. an excessive supply or amount; surfeit.
  3. an act of glutting or the state of being glutted.

verb (used with object)

  1. to feed or fill to satiety; sate:
  2. to feed or fill to excess; cloy.
  3. to flood (the market) with a particular item or service so that the supply greatly exceeds the demand.
  4. to choke up:

verb (used without object)

  1. to eat to satiety or to excess.

Origin of gluts

1275-1325; Middle English gluten, back formation from glutun glutton1

Examples for gluts

The wedges, gluts, and beetle do the rest when the latter implement is properly wielded.

With fruit in gluts, and dropping fast, the kiln was supplemented by scaffolds.

In one year the fruit-crop in a given neighbourhood is a failure: in another year it gluts the market.

The grub that does not eat its fill remains small, while the one that gluts itself grows fat.

Then, there was the theory of general "gluts," and of what is still denounced as over-production.

The mastiff mauls the bundle clumsily and gluts himself with growling greed, crunching the bones.

The boughs swung over them and swept them; the swamp-water was lifted, and gluts of it slapped in Flor's face.

Cheapness caused by gluts of the market is merely a disease of clumsy and wanton commerce.

Much of this is hand work, and “gluts” or insertion pieces are generally preferred to overlapping joints.

Plenty meant ruin to agriculturists, and commercial 'gluts' resulting in manufacturers' warehouses crammed with unsaleable goods.

Word Value for gluts
Scrable

6

Words with friends

9

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