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feeling rather glum.
glut n. 1 excess, surplus, over-abundance, superabundance, surfeit,
oversupply, overflow, superfluity, nimiety: The glut of
razor-blades in the market is due to increased production. 2
saturation, glutting, satiation: Glut leads to a lowering of
prices.
--v. 3 oversupply, flood, saturate, swamp, inundate, deluge,
overload, overstock, clog, stuff, gorge: The markets will soon
be glutted with mobile telephones. 4 satiate, sate, choke,
cram, overload, overfeed, gorge, surfeit, pall, cloy, jade,
sicken, weary: Everyone was thoroughly glutted before the
wedding reception was over.
glutton n. trencherman, gormandizer, gourmand or gormand, overeater,
hog, pig, Grangousier, Colloq greedy-guts, Slang Brit gannet, US
chowhound: Like the glutton that he is, he asked for more after
eating an enormous meal.
gluttonous
adj. voracious, gormandizing, edacious, greedy, ravenous,
insatiable, esurient, piggish, hoggish, swinish: She was so
gluttonous that she ate my dinner after finishing her own.
gluttony n. overeating, gormandizing, gormandism or gourmandism, greed,
hoggishness, piggishness, rapacity, voraciousness, greediness,
voracity, insatiability, edacity, crapulence, crapulousness,
intemperance, immoderation, Archaic gulosity: The Bible
categorizes gluttony among the seven deadly sins.
7.6 gnarled...
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gnarled adj. twisted, knotty, lumpy, bumpy, knotted, bent, crooked,
distorted, contorted, warped;, arthritic: I concealed myself in
the gnarled branches of the old oak. The beggar reached out to
me with her gnarled hand.
gnaw v. 1 chew, nibble, eat, bite, champ: The marks were made by
deer gnawing the bark. 2 erode, eat away, corrode, wear down or
away, fret, consume, devour: The acid continues to gnaw away at