"clutter" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈklʌtə(ɹ)/ [UK], /ˈklʌtɚ/ [US], [ˈklʌɾɚ] [US] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-clutter.wav Forms: clutters [plural]
Rhymes: -ʌtə(ɹ) Etymology: From Middle English cloteren (“to form clots; coagulate; heap on”), from clot (“clot”), equivalent to clot + -er (frequentative suffix). Compare Welsh cludair (“heap, pile”), cludeirio (“to heap”). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|cloteren||to form clots; coagulate; heap on}} Middle English cloteren (“to form clots; coagulate; heap on”), {{suffix|en|clot|er|id2=verbal frequentative|pos2=frequentative suffix}} clot + -er (frequentative suffix), {{cog|cy|cludair||heap, pile}} Welsh cludair (“heap, pile”) Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} clutter (countable and uncountable, plural clutters)
  1. (uncountable) A confused disordered jumble of things. Tags: uncountable Translations (a confused disordered jumble of things): врява (vrjava) [feminine] (Bulgarian), бъркотия (bǎrkotija) [feminine] (Bulgarian), 雜亂 (Chinese Mandarin), 杂乱 (záluàn) (Chinese Mandarin), rommel (Dutch), rotzooi (Dutch), sotku (Finnish), bric-à-brac [masculine] (French), bordel [masculine] (French), encombrement [masculine] (French), Unordnung [feminine] (German), Wirrwarr [neuter] (German), Durcheinander [neuter] (German), Verwirrung [feminine] (German), αταξία (ataxía) [feminine] (Greek), σύγχυση (sýnchysi) [feminine] (Greek), zűrzavar (Hungarian), összevisszaság (Hungarian), rendetlenség (Hungarian), felfordulás (Hungarian), egymás hegyén-hátán [adverb] (Hungarian), confusione [feminine] (Italian), disordine [masculine] (Italian), scompiglio [masculine] (Italian), bagunça [masculine] (Portuguese), desordem (Portuguese), беспоря́док (besporjádok) [masculine] (Russian), кутерьма́ (kuterʹmá) [feminine] (Russian), desorden [masculine] (Spanish), revoltijo [masculine] (Spanish), enredo [masculine] (Spanish), röra [common-gender] (Swedish), dağınıklık (Turkish), kargaşalık (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-clutter-en-noun-LOmGBk~G Disambiguation of 'a confused disordered jumble of things': 77 1 0 21 1
  2. (uncountable) Background echoes, from clouds etc., on a radar or sonar screen. Tags: uncountable
    Sense id: en-clutter-en-noun-0dHoQJhb
  3. (countable) Alternative form of clowder (“collective noun for cats”). Tags: alt-of, alternative, countable Alternative form of: clowder (extra: collective noun for cats)
    Sense id: en-clutter-en-noun-jB3xDo1R Categories (other): Terms with Dutch translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Hungarian translations, Terms with Italian translations, Terms with Mandarin translations Disambiguation of Terms with Dutch translations: 4 5 11 7 31 4 5 4 28 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 5 5 13 5 32 3 4 5 28 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 4 5 12 6 30 5 4 4 28 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 4 5 13 6 32 3 4 4 29 Disambiguation of Terms with Hungarian translations: 4 9 11 4 31 3 3 8 26 Disambiguation of Terms with Italian translations: 3 5 13 5 34 3 3 3 31 Disambiguation of Terms with Mandarin translations: 5 7 11 10 30 3 4 4 25
  4. (obsolete) Clatter; confused noise. Tags: countable, obsolete, uncountable
    Sense id: en-clutter-en-noun-4eVmZypu Categories (other): Terms with Mandarin translations Disambiguation of Terms with Mandarin translations: 5 7 11 10 30 3 4 4 25
  5. (mathematics) A Sperner family. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Mathematics
    Sense id: en-clutter-en-noun-p0HulRm3 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -er (verbal frequentative), Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Dutch translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Greek translations, Terms with Hungarian translations, Terms with Italian translations, Terms with Mandarin translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Terms with Swedish translations, Terms with Turkish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 2 5 13 3 46 2 1 3 26 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -er (verbal frequentative): 5 7 11 9 32 5 4 5 22 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 2 3 12 3 49 3 2 2 24 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 2 2 12 3 51 2 2 2 25 Disambiguation of Terms with Bulgarian translations: 5 5 14 6 34 4 4 5 23 Disambiguation of Terms with Dutch translations: 4 5 11 7 31 4 5 4 28 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 5 5 13 5 32 3 4 5 28 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 4 5 12 6 30 5 4 4 28 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 4 5 13 6 32 3 4 4 29 Disambiguation of Terms with Greek translations: 4 9 10 6 31 4 4 8 23 Disambiguation of Terms with Hungarian translations: 4 9 11 4 31 3 3 8 26 Disambiguation of Terms with Italian translations: 3 5 13 5 34 3 3 3 31 Disambiguation of Terms with Mandarin translations: 5 7 11 10 30 3 4 4 25 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 5 8 15 5 35 3 4 4 22 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 3 5 13 5 37 3 3 3 27 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 3 5 12 5 38 3 3 3 28 Disambiguation of Terms with Swedish translations: 5 5 13 5 35 3 4 4 27 Disambiguation of Terms with Turkish translations: 5 5 13 5 35 3 4 4 27 Topics: mathematics, sciences
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Translations (background echos): välke (Finnish), visszaverődés (Hungarian), поме́хи (poméxi) [feminine, plural] (Russian)

Verb

IPA: /ˈklʌtə(ɹ)/ [UK], /ˈklʌtɚ/ [US], [ˈklʌɾɚ] [US] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-clutter.wav Forms: clutters [present, singular, third-person], cluttering [participle, present], cluttered [participle, past], cluttered [past]
Rhymes: -ʌtə(ɹ) Etymology: From Middle English cloteren (“to form clots; coagulate; heap on”), from clot (“clot”), equivalent to clot + -er (frequentative suffix). Compare Welsh cludair (“heap, pile”), cludeirio (“to heap”). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|cloteren||to form clots; coagulate; heap on}} Middle English cloteren (“to form clots; coagulate; heap on”), {{suffix|en|clot|er|id2=verbal frequentative|pos2=frequentative suffix}} clot + -er (frequentative suffix), {{cog|cy|cludair||heap, pile}} Welsh cludair (“heap, pile”) Head templates: {{en-verb}} clutter (third-person singular simple present clutters, present participle cluttering, simple past and past participle cluttered)
  1. (transitive) To fill something with clutter. Tags: transitive Translations (to fill something with clutter): вдигам шум (vdigam šum) (Bulgarian), 亂堆 (Chinese Mandarin), 乱堆 (luànduī) (Chinese Mandarin), sotkea (Finnish), sekoittaa (Finnish), encombrer (French), anhäufen (German), überhäufen (German), überladen (German), verwirren (German), захламля́ть (zaxlamljátʹ) (Russian), загроможда́ть (zagromoždátʹ) (Russian), darmadağınık etmek (Turkish), tıkabasa doldurmak (Turkish), yığmak (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-clutter-en-verb-cW-Ev1vp Disambiguation of 'to fill something with clutter': 97 1 1 1
  2. (obsolete, intransitive) To clot or coagulate, like blood. Tags: intransitive, obsolete
    Sense id: en-clutter-en-verb-7XGsDiF2
  3. (intransitive) To make a confused noise; to bustle. Tags: intransitive
    Sense id: en-clutter-en-verb-LDy4tH3k
  4. (transitive, intransitive) To utter words hurriedly, especially (but not exclusively) as a speech disorder (compare cluttering). Tags: intransitive, transitive Translations (to utter words hurriedly, especially as a speech disorder): poltern (German), hadar (Hungarian)
    Sense id: en-clutter-en-verb-rpj5AdEo Categories (other): Entries with translation boxes, Terms with Dutch translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Hungarian translations, Terms with Italian translations, Terms with Mandarin translations Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 3 3 17 4 28 3 3 3 35 Disambiguation of Terms with Dutch translations: 4 5 11 7 31 4 5 4 28 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 5 5 13 5 32 3 4 5 28 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 4 5 12 6 30 5 4 4 28 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 4 5 13 6 32 3 4 4 29 Disambiguation of Terms with Hungarian translations: 4 9 11 4 31 3 3 8 26 Disambiguation of Terms with Italian translations: 3 5 13 5 34 3 3 3 31 Disambiguation of Terms with Mandarin translations: 5 7 11 10 30 3 4 4 25 Disambiguation of 'to utter words hurriedly, especially as a speech disorder': 1 1 1 97
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: clutterer, clutter up, overclutter

Inflected forms

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      "word": "anticlutter"
    },
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      "word": "cluttercore"
    },
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      "word": "clutterless"
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      "word": "clutterous"
    },
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      "word": "cluttersome"
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    {
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      "word": "cluttery"
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      "word": "cyberclutter"
    },
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      "word": "declutter"
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      "word": "e-clutter"
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      "word": "surface clutter"
    },
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      "word": "unclutter"
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    {
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          "ref": "1692, Roger L’Estrange, “ (please specify the fable number.) (please specify the name of the fable.)”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC:",
          "text": "He saw what a Clutter there was with Huge, Over-grown Pots, Pans, and Spits.",
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          "ref": "2013 May-June, William E. Conner, “An Acoustic Arms Race”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, pages 206–7:",
          "text": "Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close (less than half a meter) above vegetation and effectively blending into the clutter of echoes that the bat receives from the leaves and stems around them.",
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          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
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          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "a confused disordered jumble of things",
          "word": "雜亂"
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          "word": "sotku"
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          "_dis1": "77 1 0 21 1",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "a confused disordered jumble of things",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "bric-à-brac"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "77 1 0 21 1",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "a confused disordered jumble of things",
          "tags": [
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          "code": "de",
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          "sense": "a confused disordered jumble of things",
          "tags": [
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          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "a confused disordered jumble of things",
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          "code": "de",
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          "sense": "a confused disordered jumble of things",
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          "word": "Durcheinander"
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          "code": "de",
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          "tags": [
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        {
          "_dis1": "77 1 0 21 1",
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "ataxía",
          "sense": "a confused disordered jumble of things",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "αταξία"
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          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "sýnchysi",
          "sense": "a confused disordered jumble of things",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
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          "word": "σύγχυση"
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          "sense": "a confused disordered jumble of things",
          "word": "zűrzavar"
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          "_dis1": "77 1 0 21 1",
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          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "a confused disordered jumble of things",
          "word": "összevisszaság"
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          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "a confused disordered jumble of things",
          "word": "rendetlenség"
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        {
          "_dis1": "77 1 0 21 1",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "a confused disordered jumble of things",
          "word": "felfordulás"
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          "_dis1": "77 1 0 21 1",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "a confused disordered jumble of things",
          "tags": [
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          ],
          "word": "egymás hegyén-hátán"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "77 1 0 21 1",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "a confused disordered jumble of things",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "confusione"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "77 1 0 21 1",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "a confused disordered jumble of things",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
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        {
          "_dis1": "77 1 0 21 1",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "a confused disordered jumble of things",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "scompiglio"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "77 1 0 21 1",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "a confused disordered jumble of things",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "bagunça"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "77 1 0 21 1",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "a confused disordered jumble of things",
          "word": "desordem"
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        {
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          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "besporjádok",
          "sense": "a confused disordered jumble of things",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "беспоря́док"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "77 1 0 21 1",
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          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "kuterʹmá",
          "sense": "a confused disordered jumble of things",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "кутерьма́"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "77 1 0 21 1",
          "code": "es",
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          "sense": "a confused disordered jumble of things",
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          ],
          "word": "desorden"
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          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "a confused disordered jumble of things",
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          ],
          "word": "revoltijo"
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          "_dis1": "77 1 0 21 1",
          "code": "es",
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          "sense": "a confused disordered jumble of things",
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          ],
          "word": "enredo"
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          "code": "sv",
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          "sense": "a confused disordered jumble of things",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "röra"
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        {
          "_dis1": "77 1 0 21 1",
          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "a confused disordered jumble of things",
          "word": "dağınıklık"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "77 1 0 21 1",
          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "a confused disordered jumble of things",
          "word": "kargaşalık"
        }
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        "Background echoes, from clouds etc., on a radar or sonar screen."
      ],
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          "Background",
          "background"
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        [
          "echo",
          "echo"
        ],
        [
          "cloud",
          "cloud"
        ],
        [
          "radar",
          "radar"
        ],
        [
          "sonar",
          "sonar"
        ],
        [
          "screen",
          "screen"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(uncountable) Background echoes, from clouds etc., on a radar or sonar screen."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
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    },
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        }
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          "_dis": "4 5 11 7 31 4 5 4 28",
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          "name": "Terms with Dutch translations",
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          "_dis": "5 5 13 5 32 3 4 5 28",
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          "parents": [],
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          "_dis": "4 5 12 6 30 5 4 4 28",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with French translations",
          "parents": [],
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          "_dis": "4 5 13 6 32 3 4 4 29",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with German translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "4 9 11 4 31 3 3 8 26",
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          "name": "Terms with Hungarian translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
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          "_dis": "3 5 13 5 34 3 3 3 31",
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          "name": "Terms with Italian translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
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          "_dis": "5 7 11 10 30 3 4 4 25",
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          "name": "Terms with Mandarin translations",
          "parents": [],
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2008, John Robert Colombo, The Big Book of Canadian Ghost Stories, Introduction:",
          "text": "Organizing ghost stories is like herding a clutter of cats: the phenomenon resists organization and classification.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of clowder (“collective noun for cats”)."
      ],
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      "links": [
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          "clowder",
          "clowder#English"
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        "(countable) Alternative form of clowder (“collective noun for cats”)."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative",
        "countable"
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    },
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        }
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "October 14 1718, John Arbuthnot, letter to Jonathan Swift\nI hardly heard a word of news or politicks, except a little clutter about sending some impertinent presidents du parliament to prison"
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          "ref": "1835, William Cobbett, John Morgan Cobbett, James Paul Cobbett, Selections from Cobbett's political works, volume 1, page 33:",
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        "A Sperner family."
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      "word": "rendetlenség"
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      "sense": "a confused disordered jumble of things",
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      "word": "egymás hegyén-hátán"
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}

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    "Terms with Italian translations",
    "Terms with Mandarin translations",
    "Terms with Portuguese translations",
    "Terms with Russian translations",
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        "(transitive) To fill something with clutter."
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      "code": "bg",
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      "roman": "vdigam šum",
      "sense": "to fill something with clutter",
      "word": "вдигам шум"
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      "sense": "to fill something with clutter",
      "word": "亂堆"
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      "code": "cmn",
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      "roman": "luànduī",
      "sense": "to fill something with clutter",
      "word": "乱堆"
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      "code": "fi",
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      "sense": "to fill something with clutter",
      "word": "sotkea"
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      "code": "fi",
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      "sense": "to fill something with clutter",
      "word": "sekoittaa"
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      "code": "fr",
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      "sense": "to fill something with clutter",
      "word": "encombrer"
    },
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      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to fill something with clutter",
      "word": "anhäufen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to fill something with clutter",
      "word": "überhäufen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to fill something with clutter",
      "word": "überladen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to fill something with clutter",
      "word": "verwirren"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "zaxlamljátʹ",
      "sense": "to fill something with clutter",
      "word": "захламля́ть"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "zagromoždátʹ",
      "sense": "to fill something with clutter",
      "word": "загроможда́ть"
    },
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      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "to fill something with clutter",
      "word": "darmadağınık etmek"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "to fill something with clutter",
      "word": "tıkabasa doldurmak"
    },
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      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "to fill something with clutter",
      "word": "yığmak"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to utter words hurriedly, especially as a speech disorder",
      "word": "poltern"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to utter words hurriedly, especially as a speech disorder",
      "word": "hadar"
    }
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}

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