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Clutter   /klˈətər/   Listen
noun
Clutter  n.  
1.
A confused collection; hence, confusion; disorder; as, the room is in a clutter. "He saw what a clutter there was with huge, overgrown pots, pans, and spits."
2.
Clatter; confused noise.


verb
Clutter  v. t.  (past & past part. cluttered; pres. part. cluttering)  To crowd together in disorder; to fill or cover with things in disorder; to throw into disorder; to disarrange; as, to clutter a room.


Clutter  v. t.  To clot or coagulate, as blood. (Obs.)


Clutter  v. i.  To make a confused noise; to bustle. "It (the goose) cluttered here, it chuckled there."





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"Clutter" Quotes from Famous Books



... reluctant to abandon the starry prospect without, to find him bending over a clutter of things scattered about his half-emptied case. She had been about to say that she must see to unpacking some of her ...
— The Land of Promise • D. Torbett
... a little more than ready when Theron reached home, and let himself in by the front door. On Mondays, owing to the moisture and "clutter" of the weekly washing in the kitchen, the table was laid in the sitting-room, and as he entered from the hall the partner of his joys bustled in by the other door, bearing the steaming platter of corned beef, dumplings, cabbages, and carrots, with arms bared to the elbows, and a red face. ...
— The Damnation of Theron Ware • Harold Frederic
... are shown conventionally with lines. Boldface type is shown by marks. Individual bold or CAPITALIZED words within an italicized phrase should be read as non-italic, though the extra lines have been omitted to reduce clutter.] ...
— A Brief History of the English Language and Literature, Vol. 2 (of 2) • John Miller Dow Meiklejohn
... Galbraithe believed this was possible, but every scarred bit of furniture was in its place and the dusty clutter of papers in the corner had not been disturbed. The new city editor glanced suspiciously toward Galbraithe's dress suit case and reached forward as though to press a button. With flushed cheeks Galbraithe retreated, and ...
— The Best Short Stories of 1919 - and the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various
... to side with a vaguely worried feeling that it must take a power of dusting and wiping to keep such a clutter of things clean; and this feeling gradually rose into her consciousness above the dull stupefaction of ...
— McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908 • Various


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