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clut⋅ter

[kluht-er]
–verb (used with object)
1. to fill or litter with things in a disorderly manner: All kinds of papers cluttered the top of his desk.
–verb (used without object)
2. British Dialect. to run in disorder; move with bustle and confusion.
3. British Dialect. to make a clatter.
4. to speak so rapidly and inexactly that distortions of sound and phrasing result.
–noun
5. a disorderly heap or assemblage; litter: It's impossible to find anything in all this clutter.
6. a state or condition of confusion.
7. confused noise; clatter.
8. 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; var. of clotter (now obs.), equiv. to clot + -er 6


5. mess, disorder, jumble.
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clut·ter   (klŭt'ər)   
n.  
  1. A confused or disordered state or collection; a jumble: sorted through the clutter in the attic.

  2. A confused noise; a clatter.

v.   clut·tered, clut·ter·ing, clut·ters

v.   tr.
  1. To fill or spread over in a disorderly manner: Boxes cluttered the garage.

  2. To make disorderly or hard to use by filling or covering with objects: I cluttered up my desk with old memos.

v.   intr.
  1. To run or move with bustle and confusion.

  2. To make a clatter.


[Probably from Middle English cloteren, to clot, from clot, lump, from Old English clott.]
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Word Origin & History

clutter 
1556, var. of clotern "to form clots, to heap on," sense of "litter" is first recorded 1666. (see clot).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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