glut
\ gluht \, noun;
1.an excessive supply or amount; surfeit.
2.a full supply.
3.an act of glutting or the state of being glutted.
verb:
1.to feed or fill to satiety; sate: to glut the appetite .
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: to glut a channel .
5.to eat to satiety or to excess.
Quotes:
Somehow, among the glut of social networks that emerged in the mid-2000s, Twitter survived Fail Whales, corporate back-stabbings and attempted buyouts by Yahoo, Facebook and Al Gore to become one of the biggest websites on the Internet, with 230 million monthly active users.
-- Victor Luckerson, "The 7 Most Important Moments in Twitter History," Time , November 07, 2013
It had been named after him in a glut of enthusiasm for the town's independence following the Revolutionary War.
-- John Irving, The World According to Garp , 1978
Origin:
Glut is a back formation of the word glutton referring to "a person who eats and drinks excessively or voraciously."
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