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Definition of Litter
1. Verb. Strew. "Cigar butts littered the ground"
2. Noun. The offspring at one birth of a multiparous mammal.
3. Verb. Make a place messy by strewing garbage around.
4. Noun. Rubbish carelessly dropped or left about (especially in public places).
5. Verb. Give birth to a litter of animals.
6. Noun. Conveyance consisting of a chair or bed carried on two poles by bearers.
Specialized synonyms: Covered Couch, Palankeen, Palanquin, Sedan, Sedan Chair, Stretcher
7. Noun. Material used to provide a bed for animals.
Definition of Litter
1. n. A bed or stretcher so arranged that a person, esp. a sick or wounded person, may be easily carried in or upon it.
2. v. t. To supply with litter, as cattle; to cover with litter, as the floor of a stall.
3. v. i. To be supplied with litter as bedding; to sleep or make one's bed in litter.
Definition of Litter
1. Noun. 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. ¹
2. Noun. The offspring of a mammal born in one birth. ¹
3. Noun. Material used as bedding for animals. ¹
4. Noun. Collectively, items discarded on the ground. ¹
5. Noun. Absorbent material used in an animal's litter tray ¹
6. Noun. Layer of fallen leaves and similar organic matter in a forest floor. ¹
7. Verb. (intransitive) To drop or throw trash without properly disposing of it (as discarding in public areas rather than trash receptacles). ¹
8. Verb. (transitive) To give birth to, used of animals. ¹
9. Verb. (intransitive) To be supplied with litter as bedding; to sleep or make one's bed in litter. ¹
10. Verb. (intransitive) To produce a litter of young. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Litter
1. to scatter rubbish about [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Medical Definition of Litter
1. The undecomposed plant and animal material found on the forest floor. (09 Oct 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Litter
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