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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Clutter \Clut"ter\, noun [Cf. W. cludair heap, pile, cludeirio to heap.]
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. --L'Estrange.
2. Clatter; confused noise. --Swift.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Clutter \Clut"ter\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Cluttered}; p. pr. & vb. n. {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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Clutter \Clut"ter\, verb (used without an object) To make a confused noise; to bustle.
It [the goose] cluttered here, it chuckled there. --Tennyson.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Clutter \Clut"ter\, verb (used with an object) [From {Clod}, noun] To clot or coagulate, as blood. [Obs.] --Holland.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
clutter
noun
1: a confused multitude of things [syn: {jumble}, {muddle}, {mare's nest}, {welter}, {smother}]
2: unwanted echoes that interfere with the observation of signals on a radar screen
verb: fill a space in a disorderly way [syn: {clutter up}] [ant: {unclutter}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
108 Moby Thesaurus words for "clutter": a mass of, a world of, abound with, army, arsy-varsiness, ataxia, atmospheric attenuation, be alive with, bevy, blind spots, bristle with, bunch, burst with, chaos, cloud, confusion, covey, crawl with, creep with, crowd, deflection, derange, disarrange, disarray, dishevel, dislocate, disorder, disorganize, false echoes, farrago, flight, flock, flocks, gallimaufry, ground clutter, hail, hash, helter-skelter, higgledy-piggledy, hive, hodgepodge, host, huddle, hugger-mugger, hysteron proteron, jam, jumble, jungle, large amount, legion, litter, lots, macedoine, many, mash, masses of, medley, melange, mess, mess up, misarrange, mishmash, mob, muchness, muddle, multiply, multitude, muss, muss up, nest, numbers, olla podrida, overflow with, pack, plurality, pullulate with, quantities, quite a few, refraction, rout, ruck, ruffle, rummage, rumple, scatter, scores, scramble, sea clutter, shoal, shuffle, snarl, strew, superrefraction, swarm, swarm with, tangle, teem with, throng, throng with, tidy sum, topsy-turviness, topsy-turvydom, tousle, tumble, turmoil, unholy mess, welter, worlds of
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