litter
/ˈlɪt.ɚ/ verb C2- To drop or throw trash without properly disposing of it (as discarding in public areas rather than trash receptacles). · By tossing the bottle out the window, he was littering.
- To scatter carelessly about.
- To strew (a place) with scattered articles.
- To give birth to, in the manner of animals.
- To produce a litter of young.
- To supply (cattle etc.) with litter; to cover with litter, as the floor of a stall.
- To be supplied with litter as bedding; to sleep or make one's bed in litter.
He/she/it litters · Past littered · Past participle littered · -ing form littering
Verb forms
- Base form
- litter
- He/she/it
- litters
- Past
- littered
- Past participle
- littered
- -ing form
- littering
From the library
The Wild Sow, whom you see daily digging up the earth, wishes to uproot the oak, so she may on its fall seize our families as food for her young.” Having thus frightened the Eagle out of her senses, she crept down to the cave of the Sow, and said, “Your children are in great danger; for as soon as you go out with your litter to find food, the Eagle is prepared to pounce upon one of your little pigs.” Having instilled these fears into the Sow, she went and pretended to hide herself in the hollow of the tree.
This was a lofty chamber, lined and littered with countless bottles.
“We have it all here,” said Gregson, pointing to a litter of objects upon one of the bottom steps of the stairs.
“I have it,” I cried, and plunged among the litter of papers upon the sofa.
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