The difference between Cloy and Glut

When used as verbs, cloy means to fill up or choke up, whereas glut means to fill to capacity, to satisfy all requirement or demand, to sate.

Glut is also noun with the meaning: an excess, too much.

check bellow for the other definitions of Cloy and Glut

  1. Cloy as a verb (transitive):

    To fill up or choke up; to stop up.

  2. Cloy as a verb (transitive):

    To clog, to glut, or satisfy, as the appetite; to satiate.

  3. Cloy as a verb (transitive):

    To fill to loathing; to surfeit.

  1. Glut as a noun:

    An excess, too much.

    Examples:

    "a glut of the market"

  2. Glut as a noun:

    That which is swallowed.

  3. Glut as a noun:

    Something that fills up an opening; a clog.

  4. Glut as a noun:

    A wooden wedge used in splitting blocks.

  5. Glut as a noun (mining):

    A piece of wood used to fill up behind cribbing or tubbing.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Raymond"

  6. Glut as a noun (bricklaying):

    A bat, or small piece of brick, used to fill out a course.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Knight"

  7. Glut as a noun (architecture):

    An arched opening to the ashpit of a kiln.

  8. Glut as a noun:

    A block used for a fulcrum.

  9. Glut as a noun:

    The broad-nosed eel (Anguilla latirostris), found in Europe, Asia, the West Indies, etc.

  1. Glut as a verb:

    To fill to capacity, to satisfy all requirement or demand, to sate.

    Examples:

    "to glut one's appetite"

  2. Glut as a verb:

    To eat gluttonously or to satiety.

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