Meaning

4 senses
  1. (transitive)To fill something with clutter.

    anhäufen, überhäufen, überladen

    захламля́тьzaxlamljátʹ, загроможда́тьzagromoždátʹ

    fill a space in a disorderly way

  2. (intransitive)To make a confused noise; to bustle.

  3. (intransitive, transitive)To utter words hurriedly, especially (but not exclusively) as a speech disorder (compare cluttering).

    poltern

  4. (intransitive, obsolete)To clot or coagulate, like blood.

Examples

72 sentences
  1. Tom has been meaning to clean out his badly cluttered garage for years.

    Том роками збирався навести порядок у своєму захаращеному гаражі.

    deTom will seine zugemüllte Garage schon seit Jahren ausmisten.

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  2. The room is cluttered with newspapers.

    deDas Zimmer ist mit Zeitungen übersät.

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  3. Tom's house is very cluttered.

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  4. Tom's apartment is cluttered.

    ruУ Тома захламлённая квартира.

    deToms Wohnung ist unaufgeräumt.

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  5. All this paperwork just clutters my desk.

    Всі ці папери тільки захаращують мій стіл.

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Translations

5 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
to fill something with clutter:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
to fill something with clutter:
to utter words hurriedly, especially as a speech disorder:

Origin

From Middle English cloteren (“to form clots; coagulate; heap on”), from clot (“clot”), eq

From Middle English cloteren (“to form clots; coagulate; heap on”), from clot (“clot”), equivalent to clot + -er (frequentative suffix). Compare Welsh cludair (“heap, pile”), cludeirio (“to heap”).

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Forms

clutters, cluttering, cluttered, cluttered
Base formclutter · to clutter
3rd person singularclutters
Present participlecluttering
Past simplecluttered
Past participlecluttered

irregular

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyclutter
he, she, itclutters

Past simpleLesson

all personscluttered

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave cluttered
he, she, ithas cluttered

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill clutter

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning

Antonyms

1 antonyms

Word family

3 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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