Adjacent Words

Littered definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

LIT'TERED, pp.
1. Furnished with straw.
2. a. Covered or overspread with litter, pieces, shreds, etc.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Litter Lit"ter, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Littered; p. pr. & vb. n. Littering.] 1. To supply with litter, as cattle; to cover with litter, as the floor of a stall. Tell them how they litter their jades. --Bp. Hacke?. For his ease, well littered was the floor. --Dryden. 2. To put into a confused or disordered condition; to strew with scattered articles; as, to litter a room. The room with volumes littered round. --Swift. 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. We might conceive that dogs were created blind, because we observe they were littered so with us. --Sir T. Browne. The son that she did litter here, A freckled whelp hagborn. --Shak.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

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