clutter up
To fill with rubbish or with needless articlesTo fill with rubbish or with needless articles.
» I try not to clutter up my room with junk.
Я стараюсь не захламлять свою комнату. — odexed
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1 sensesTo fill with rubbish or with needless articles.
Why do you clutter up your mind with such useless knowledge?
The hotel lobby was cluttered up with furniture.
- fill a space in a disorderly way
Examples
4 sentencesI try not to clutter up my room with junk.
ruЯ стараюсь не захламлять свою комнату. — odexed
I'm tired of my husband's trash cluttering up my car.
The first thing to do is to clear away all the rubbish that clutters up the place.
You clutter up your room entirely too much with out-of-doors stuff, Anne.
Forms
clutters up, cluttering up, cluttered up, cluttered up| Base form | clutter up · to clutter up |
|---|---|
| 3rd person singular | clutters up |
| Present participle | cluttering up |
| Past simple | cluttered up |
| Past participle | cluttered up |
irregular
Synonyms
1 synonyms- fill a space in a disorderly way:clutter
Lessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Phrasal verbs: introduction — Because it is a phrasal verb
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.