Glut vs Obstruct - What's the difference?
glut | obstruct | Synonyms |
an excess, too much
* Macaulay
* {{quote-news
, year=2011
, date=February 12
, author=Les Roopanarine
, title=Birmingham 1 - 0 Stoke
, work=BBC
That which is swallowed.
Something that fills up an opening; a clog.
A wooden wedge used in splitting blocks.
(mining) A piece of wood used to fill up behind cribbing or tubbing.
(bricklaying) A bat, or small piece of brick, used to fill out a course.
(architecture) An arched opening to the ashpit of a kiln.
A block used for a fulcrum.
The broad-nosed eel (Anguilla latirostris ), found in Europe, Asia, the West Indies, etc.
(Webster 1913)
To fill to capacity, to satisfy all requirement or demand, to sate.
* Charles Kingsley
To eat gluttonously or to satiety.
* Tennyson
----
To block or fill (a passage) with obstacles or an obstacle. See Synonyms at block.
To impede, retard, or interfere with; hinder: obstructed my progress.
To get in the way of so as to hide from sight.
Glut is a synonym of obstruct.
As a noun glut
is heat, glow.As a verb obstruct is
to block or fill (a passage) with obstacles or an obstacle see synonyms at block.glut
English
Noun
(en noun)- a glut of the market
- A glut of those talents which raise men to eminence.
citation, page= , passage=Indeed, it was clear from the outset that anyone hoping for a repeat of last weekend's Premier League goal glut would have to look beyond St Andrew's. }}
- (Milton)
- (Raymond)
- (Knight)
Synonyms
* excess, overabundance, plethora, slew, surfeit, surplusAntonyms
* lack * shortageVerb
- to glut one's appetite
- The realms of nature and of art were ransacked to glut the wonder, lust, and ferocity of a degraded populace.
- Like three horses that have broken fence, / And glutted all night long breast-deep in corn.
