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What is the noun for glutting?

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glut
  1. an excess, too much
  2. That which is swallowed.
  3. Something that fills up an opening; a clog.
  4. A wooden wedge used in splitting blocks.
  5. (mining) A piece of wood used to fill up behind cribbing or tubbing.
  6. (bricklaying) A bat, or small piece of brick, used to fill out a course.
  7. (architecture) An arched opening to the ashpit of a kiln.
  8. A block used for a fulcrum.
  9. The broad-nosed eel (Anguilla latirostris), found in Europe, Asia, the West Indies, etc.
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  11. Examples:
    1. “And the geostationary-satellite market already had a glut of capacity.”
glutton
  1. One who eats voraciously, obsessively, or to excess; a gormandizer.
  2. (figuratively) One who consumes voraciously, obsessively, or to excess
  3. The wolverine, Gulo gulo, of the family Mustelidae, a carnivorous mammal about the size of a large badger, native to the northern parts of America, Europe, and Asia.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “Is it something to eat, glutton and gormandizer that thou art?”
      “And if you are a glutton for pain, the acting is just as bad as the dialogue.”
gluttony
  1. The vice of eating to excess.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “But of course to anyone listening to that conversation you would think she was commenting on my gut or on my gluttony.”
      “Can he be sure that his appetites will not lead him to gluttony, intemperance or sensuality?”
      “Here is just some of the mind-boggling gluttony and material excess that will take place tomorrow.”
gluttonousness
gluttoness
  1. (rare) A female glutton.
gluttonism
  1. The state of being a glutton.
gluttonesses
  1. plural of gluttoness
gluttonies
gluttons
  1. plural of glutton
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  3. Examples:
    1. “They didn't ask any questions about chocolate, which accounts for her not being lumped in with the gluttons.”
      “These players were risk gluttons and there was absolutely no protest or discipline from the marketplace, until recently.”
      “So will our cities all end up as energy gluttons dominated by rats, starlings and cockroaches?”
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