Crossword-Solution: LITTER
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Litter | n. | A bed or stretcher so arranged that a person, esp. a sick or wounded person, may be easily carried in or upon it. |
| Litter | n. | Straw, hay, etc., scattered on a floor, as bedding for animals to rest on; also, a covering of straw for plants. |
| Litter | n. | Things lying scattered about in a manner indicating slovenliness; scattered rubbish. |
| Litter | n. | Disorder or untidiness resulting from scattered rubbish, or from thongs lying about uncared for; as, a room in a state of litter. |
| Litter | n. | The young brought forth at one time, by a sow or other multiparous animal, taken collectively. Also Fig. |
| Litter | v. t. | To supply with litter, as cattle; to cover with litter, as the floor of a stall. |
| Litter | v. t. | To put into a confused or disordered condition; to strew with scattered articles; as, to litter a room. |
| Litter | v. t. | To give birth to; to bear; -- said of brutes, esp. those which produce more than one at a birth, and also of human beings, in abhorrence or contempt. |
| Litter | v. i. | To be supplied with litter as bedding; to sleep or make one's bed in litter. |
| Litter | v. i. | To produce a litter. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| LITTER | anagram | TILTER, TITLER |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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greedy person
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Sentences with LITTER (5)
The Wild Sow, whom you see daily digging up the earth, wishes to uproot the oak, so she may on its fall seize our families as food for her young.” Having thus frightened the Eagle out of her senses, she crept down to the cave of the Sow, and said, “Your children are in great danger; for as soon as you go out with your litter to find food, the Eagle is prepared to pounce upon one of your little pigs.” Having instilled these fears into the Sow, she went and pretended to hide herself in the hollow of the tree.
Accordingly, as we went along I gathered any sticks or dried grass I saw, and presently had my arms full of such litter.
But he wouldn’t want you to see him like this, poor old chap! Understand? Now, skip!” Thea ran down the gulch and looked back only once, to see them lifting the canvas litter with Wunsch upon it, still covered with the blanket.
This huge fellow roamed restlessly about, nosing among his companions and the abhorrent litter of the cave.
Stand a litter furder west—so—that’s it; it’s a prime comfort to see faces that’s friendly when a body’s in such a muck of trouble, and there don’t none come here but yourn.
Quotes with LITTER (3)
You should be spreading the good word. You should be etching the good word onto the glass scanning beds of library photocopiers. You should be scraping the truth onto old auto parts and throwing them off bridges so that people digging in the mud in a million years will question the world, too. You should be carving eyeballs into tire treads and onto shoe soles so that your every trail speaks of thinking and faith and belief. You should be designing molecules that crystallize …
The truth must be quite plain, if one could just clear away the litter.
In my darkest night, when the moon was coveredand I roamed through wreckage, a nimbus-clouded voicedirected me:“Live in the layers, not on the litter.” Though I lack the artto decipher it, no doubt the next chapterin my book of transformationsis already written. I am not done with my changes.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: AARP, Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 67 times in crossword archives (1952–2024).