overglut

present singular third person overgluts · participle present overglutting · participle past overglutted · past overglutted

1. transitiveTo glut excessively.

   to overglut the market

plural overgluts

1. countableuncountableAn excessive glut; an oversupply.

   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 496

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   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

   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