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[kluht-er]

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verb (used with object)

to fill or litter with things in a disorderly manner: All kinds of papers cluttered the top of his desk.

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verb (used without object)

British Dialect. to run in disorder; move with bustle and confusion.

British Dialect. to make a clatter.

to speak so rapidly and inexactly that distortions of sound and phrasing result.

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noun

a disorderly heap or assemblage; litter: It's impossible to find anything in all this clutter.

a state or condition of confusion.

confused noise; clatter.

an echo or echoes on a radar screen that do not come from the target and can be caused by such factors as atmospheric conditions, objects other than the target, chaff, and jamming of the radar signal.

Origin:
1550–60; variant of clotter (now obsolete), equivalent to clot + -er⁶

Related forms

o·ver·clut·ter, verb (used with object)

un·clut·ter, verb (used with object)

un·clut·tered, adjective

Synonyms
5. mess, disorder, jumble.

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Example Sentences

Trying to impose order on a family's clutter sets the memories free.

Adding to my own list of tasks and increasing anyone else's inbox clutter certainly isn't my idea of productivity.

The clutter this causes on the screen is made worse when the signal is bounced around between different turbines in the same farm.

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Trying to impose order on a family's clutter sets the memories free.

Adding to my own list of tasks and increasing anyone else's inbox clutter certainly isn't my idea of productivity.

The clutter this causes on the screen is made worse when the signal is bounced around between different turbines in the same farm.

Looking up removed the clutter of the background and turned their tartans into dramatic shapes.

By emitting multiple sonar frequencies, big brown bats are able to distinguish the insects they eat from background clutter.

Your own street is a clutter of rubble and collapsed buildings.

The house closets are enviable for their lack of clutter.

Some of the respondents are concerned that wanted e-mail will be lost in the clutter of unwanted e-mail.

Still, not all price-conscious retailers are crazy for clutter.

Our faculty and staff have appreciated the clutter reduction and time and paper saved.

Rooster's mobile home is parked beneath the leaves of real trees, with a hen coop, and a clutter of broken furniture.

Amblyopic patients often have trouble discerning normal-size font in a clutter of other letters.

Black-and-white death announcements add to the clutter on the walls.

Don't clutter your display by trying to showcase everything.

The guidelines advise developers against using big graphics or pop-up ads that could clutter phone screens.

The stack of cards can quickly grow and clutter my desk, but a daily clean up of stacking them up helps.

Others have lost their function but have not been removed, so they simply clutter things up.

Radar-estimated wind speeds could not be measured during the collapse because of radar clutter.

Now they litter backyards and clutter garages with their rusted frames and rotted tires.

Be thoughtful about who really needs to attend, and try not to clutter up everyone's schedule with meetings that could be avoided.

The online edition gives me access to the archive without clutter.

Said microscopic black holes then clutter together under their own gravity and form a macroscopic black hole.

Best for tidiness are the two drawers in the front panel which will keep clutter off the desktop.

He speaks amid the toppled stacks of paper, empty cans of diet soda, and haphazard piles of books that clutter his corner office.

The first silhouette is clearly visible as a coiled snake, but the second is buried amid background clutter.

Few families wanted to clutter their living rooms with one box for color and another for black-and-white.

As a humanist, the article clutter in my offices was out of control.

He spent much of his time alone with nature, hence there was little clutter in his mind, little burden.

Cleaning up the clutter on your desk could have a significant effect on clearing up the clutter in your brain.

Clutter disturbs the chi when you live in a round, totally open room, he says.

Acer is showing a new e-reader and smartphone that more than anything else add clutter to the category.

But that doesn't solve the problem of cable clutter and disintegrated services.

It's hard to pick out a bomb with so much clutter around.

Then they become desktop pariahs, turning from tabletop-tidies to plastic clutter in seconds.

And you reduce the clutter on a typical page, offering much less distraction.

Those who really don't want any more living room clutter should hold out a little longer.

There's too much advertising out there, so they try to find new ways tocut through the clutter that they've created.

Tinfoil-capped flasks clutter the countertops, next to econo-size boxes of latex gloves.

Rather than clutter the bottom of your screen with annoying rectangular.

If you're writing on a computer, get a writing app that helps hide the clutter and distractions of your desktop.

They were able to sift through the clutter of automotive facts and find the ideal alternative.

If you're an appoholic and want to clear some clutter from your screen, you can now create folders to hold your apps.

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World English Dictionary

clutter (ˈklʌtə)

—vb (often foll by up)
1.	to strew or amass (objects) in a disorderly manner
2.	(intr) to move about in a bustling manner
3.	(intr) to chatter or babble

—n
4.	a disordered heap or mass of objects
5.	a state of disorder
6.	unwanted echoes that confuse the observation of signals on a radar screen

[C15 clotter, from clotteren to clot]

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Word Origin & History

clutter

1550s, var. of clotern "to form clots, to heap on," sense of "litter" is first recorded 1660s. (see clot).

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