2syllables
litter
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Definitions oflitter
1noun
- A platform mounted on two shafts, or a more elaborate construction, designed to be carried by two (or more) people to transport one (in luxury models sometimes more) third person(s) or (occasionally in the elaborate version) a cargo, such as a religious idol.
- (collective) The offspring of a mammal born in one birth.
- Material used as bedding for animals.
Example: "sleep in the litter"
- Collectively, items discarded on the ground.
Example: "drop litter"
- Absorbent material used in an animal's litter tray
Example: "the cat's litter"
- Layer of fallen leaves and similar organic matter in a forest floor.
- A covering of straw for plants.
1verb
- To drop or throw trash without properly disposing of it (as discarding in public areas rather than trash receptacles).
Example: "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, used 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.
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