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litter

/ˈlɪt.ɚ/noun, verb2 syllables

Litter means: material used to provide a bed for animals.

Synonyms for litter13

noun, as in material used to provide a bed for animals

bedding material, bedding

also used for litter

stretcher, such a vehicle used for transporting the sick and injured, inclusive of designs carried in the hand, garbage, cultch, crap, debris, dreck, drek, gash, junk

Includes material from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What does litter mean?7

noun

1

material used to provide a bed for animals

2

the offspring at one birth of a multiparous mammal

3

rubbish carelessly dropped or left about (especially in public places)

4

conveyance consisting of a chair or bed carried on two poles by bearers

verb

1

strew“Cigar butts littered the ground”

2

make a place messy by strewing garbage around

3

give birth to a litter of animals

Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What rhymes with litter?8

two syllables

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three syllables

transmitter
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Litter in a sentence

  • Remember, we should keep our environment clean and litter-free.Amastan
  • There is a law against dropping litter, but it's rarely enforced.sundown
  • At our zoo, the pair of white lions had a litter.rul
  • A lot of people climb the railing, and even litter.n1ls
  • Everywhere lay bottles, seed husks, and other litter.AlanF_US
  • Our goat gave birth to a litter of three kids.shekitten
  • When the cat's away clean the kitty litter.memries
  • The work mostly consists of removing undergrowth and clearing away litter.danieljtah

Sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR, credited to their authors.

Forms of litter

as a noun

plural
litters

as a verb

past tense
littered
present participle
littering
third-person singular
litters
past participle
littered