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[syn: cluttered, littered]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Litter \Lit"ter\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Littered
(l[i^]t"t[~e]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. Littering.]
1. To supply with litter, as cattle; to cover with litter, as
the floor of a stall.
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Tell them how they litter their jades. --Bp.
Hackett.
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For his ease, well littered was the floor. --Dryden.
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2. To put into a confused or disordered condition; to strew
with scattered articles; as, to litter a room.
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The room with volumes littered round. --Swift.
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3. To give birth to; to bear; -- said of brutes, esp. those
which produce more than one at a birth, and also of human
beings, in abhorrence or contempt.
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We might conceive that dogs were created blind,
because we observe they were littered so with us.
--Sir T.
Browne.
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The son that she did litter here,
A freckled whelp hagborn. --Shak.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
littered \lit"tered\ (l[i^]t"t[~e]rd), adj.
having articles scattered about in a disorderly fashion.
Syn: cluttered, messy, mussy, untidy.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
littered
adj 1: filled or scattered with a disorderly accumulation of
objects or rubbish; "the storm left the drivewaylittered
with sticks nd debris"; "his library was a cluttered room
with piles of books on every chair" [syn: cluttered,
littered]