clutter
to fill or litter with things in a disorderly manner: All kinds of papers cluttered the top of his desk.
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.
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 of clutter
1Other words for clutter
Other words from clutter
- o·ver·clut·ter, verb (used with object)
- un·clut·ter, verb (used with object)
- un·clut·tered, adjective
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How to use clutter in a sentence
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Surf Better With These 9 Killer Google Chrome Extensions | Brian Ries | December 11, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTNot a sound anywheres—perfectly still—just like the whole world was asleep, only sometimes the bullfrogs a-cluttering, maybe.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Complete | Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)I'll not be cluttering my mind with the likes of that, woman dear!
Jane Journeys On | Ruth Comfort MitchellThere was no litter of paper and of cans; no broken sticks cluttering the ground.
The Camp Fire Girls at the End of the Trail | Margaret VandercookWeve got all we can handle without cluttering things up with a mess of rubbish.
Cursed | George Allan England
Mrs. Meadows, you are going to have a horse cluttering up your back yard for some time.
Ticktock and Jim | Keith Robertson
British Dictionary definitions for clutter
/ (ˈklʌtə) /
(usually tr often foll by up) to strew or amass (objects) in a disorderly manner
(intr) to move about in a bustling manner
(intr) to chatter or babble
a disordered heap or mass of objects
a state of disorder
unwanted echoes that confuse the observation of signals on a radar screen
Origin of clutter
1Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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