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Historically, maritime travelers had to pass around the entire mass of North and South America, including the bottom tip, the tempestuous Cape Horn, which was littered with shipwrecks.
Alan Huffman

Meaning of "littered" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF LITTERED

littered  [ˈlɪtəd] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF LITTERED

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Littered is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES LITTERED MEAN IN ENGLISH?

littered

Litter

Litter consists of waste products that have been disposed improperly, without consent, at an inappropriate location. Litter can also be used as a verb. To litter means to throw objects onto the ground and leave them indefinitely or for others to dispose of as opposed to disposing of them properly. Larger hazardous items such as tires, appliances, electronics and large industrial containers are often dumped in isolated locations, such as National Forests and other public land. It is a human impact on the environment and is a serious environmental issue in many countries. Litter can exist in the environment for long periods of time before degrading and be transported large distances into the world's oceans. Litter can affect quality of life. Cigarette butts are the most littered item in the world, with 4.5 trillion discarded annually. Estimates on the required time for cigarette butts to break down vary. They range from five years to 400 years for complete degradation.

Definition of littered in the English dictionary

The definition of littered in the dictionary is containing litter or debris; messylittered with sth. Other definition of littered is abundant; having or being manylittered across sth.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH LITTERED


bastard
ˈbɑːstəd
busted
ˈbʌstəd
caffeinated
ˈkæfɪˌneɪtəd
centered
ˈsɛntəd
centred
ˈsɛntəd
chartered
ˈtʃɑːtəd
cratered
ˈkreɪtəd
embittered
ɪmˈbɪtəd
goitered
ˈɡɔɪtəd
goitred
ˈɡɔɪtəd
headquartered
ˌhɛdˈkwɔːtəd
it´d
ˈɪtəd
mustard
ˈmʌstəd
pinnulated
ˈpɪnjʊˌleɪtəd
registered
ˈrɛdʒɪstəd
scattered
ˈskætəd
uncatered
ʌnˈkeɪtəd
unembittered
ˌʌnɪmˈbɪtəd
unmonitored
ʌnˈmɒnɪtəd
unregistered
ʌnˈrɛdʒɪstəd

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE LITTERED

litten
litter
litter basket
litter bin
litter box
litter lout
litterbag
litterer
littermate
littery
little
Little America
little auk
little Aussie battler
Little Bear
Little Belt
Little Bighorn
little by little
Little Corporal
little cuttle

WORDS THAT END LIKE LITTERED

buttered
clustered
cluttered
considered
flattered
flustered
lettered
plastered
quartered
self-centered
shattered
sheltered
shuttered
tattered
unaltered
uncluttered
unfettered
unfiltered
unmetered
upholstered
watered

Synonyms and antonyms of littered in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «LITTERED»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «littered» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of littered

Translation of «littered» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF LITTERED

Find out the translation of littered to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of littered from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «littered» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

乱丢
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

llena
570 millions of speakers

English

littered
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

बिछी
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

تناثرت
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

замусорена
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

cheio
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

littered
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

jonché
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Dibuang
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

übersät
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

散らかっ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

산재
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Littered
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

rải rác
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

சிதறிக்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

भरलेले
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

çevrili
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

disseminato
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

zaśmiecona
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

засмічена
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

plină
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ρυπαίνεται
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

besaai
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

kantas
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

strødd
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of littered

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «LITTERED»

The term «littered» is quite widely used and occupies the 40.771 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «LITTERED» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «littered» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «littered» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about littered

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10 QUOTES WITH «LITTERED»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word littered.
1
Iain Banks
Most mainstream male fiction is littered with heroines, and female characters are basically so great, you want to fall in love with them.
2
Bob Barr
The seemingly omnipresent storm clouds hanging over the Constitution often make it hard to find a silver lining. Every day, the front page of The Drudge Report is littered with stories of government assaults on our civil liberties - from local government officials all the way up to the Oval Office.
3
Noah Feldman
The world is littered with constitutions that have written guarantees of rights but that don't actually deliver rights. What differentiates the ones where rights are real from where rights are fake is that it's in the initial interests of the majority to actually deliver these rights.
4
Giles Foden
The history of ideas is littered with the corpses of those who have tried to define culture.
5
Will Forte
My life is littered with bad decisions.
6
Margaret Heffernan
I haven't always hated McDonald's. When my kids were little and I lived in the U.S., they were as susceptible as anyone to Happy Meals and tatty toys that subsequently littered our sitting room.
7
Alan Huffman
Most of the planet's terrestrial surfaces are visually accessible through video cameras and satellite imagery, if not physically within reach. Even the approaches to Mount Everest are now littered with human debris. One can drive to Timbuktu, which for centuries was synonymous with inaccessibility.
8
Alan Huffman
Historically, maritime travelers had to pass around the entire mass of North and South America, including the bottom tip, the tempestuous Cape Horn, which was littered with shipwrecks.
9
Raza Jaffrey
I think fidelity is absolutely important, especially in the acting industry, which is littered with broken relationships because people are away filming for months.
10
David Lloyd
You are not going to get peace with millions of armed men. The chariot of peace cannot advance over a road littered with cannon.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «LITTERED»

Discover the use of littered in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to littered and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Littered
This eclectic collection of poetry, written within the span of twenty-one years, offers thoughts from a variety of viewpoints. The works found within "Littered" provide unique perspectives on love, art, mythology, and life.
S. Vault, 2008
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The United States Register and Studbook for Cats
CHIZER (80). Breeder: Mrs. S. H. Bond. Owner: Mrs. Elizabeth Somers. Littered March 5, 1903. Orange eyes. By Menelik III (31*)— .Sweet Lalla Rookh (6). DACOTAH (270). Breeder: Mrs. Rose E. Sandford. Owner: Mrs. B. W. Pease. Littered ...
‎1906
3
Ensign Training
Modification: Minimize “Prevent” minimization means avoiding changes in “ Ground looks littered”: hidden pieces of clay should not increase or decrease perception of littered ground. Same idea: intentionally make ground looking littered, and ...
Len Kaplan, 2009
4
Industrial & Engineering Chemistry: I & EC.
It was most rapid and greatest in the straw-littered manure, where bacteria were most numerous. 2—The water-soluble organic matter ranged from 10 to 13 per cent of the total organic matter in the fresh manures. It decreased continuously ...
‎1916
5
I/EC. Industrial and engineering chemistry
It was most rapid and greatest in the straw-littered manure, where bacteria were most numerous. 2—The water-soluble organic matter ranged from 10 to 13 per cent of the total organic matter in the fresh manures. It decreased continuously ...
‎1916
6
Annual Message to City Council of ... Mayor ... Together ...
328 Yards littered with trash, kitchen refuse, etc ..................... .- 327 Under houses littered with trash, etc ................................... .. 38 Lots ... etc .................................... .. 3 Cellars, basements, flats littered with trash, 5 Roofs defective and leaking .
Savannah (Ga.), 1911
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Experiment Station Record
In a fermenting mixture of manure and shavings, as compared with straw- littered manure and unlittered manure, are reported. A basal manure prepared by mixing one part by weight of fresh horse manure with two parts fresh cow manure and ...
‎1917
8
Experiment station r
in a fermenting mixture of manure and shavings, as compared with straw- littered manure and unllttered manure, are reported. A basal manure prepared by mixing one part by weight of fresh horse manure with two parts fresh cow manure and ...
‎1917
9
Navigating Environmental Attitudes
Unlike those Wisconsin Dells tourists who, to my dismay, hung onto their handbills, onethird of Finnie's hotdog eaters littered. He found that, if the streets were clean and trash cans were around, the littering rate fell to 15%. When the streets ...
Thomas A. Heberlein, 2012
10
ADV EXPERIMENTAL SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
We expected that if subjects were thereby focused on the state of the environment in a littered setting, they would litter at rates greater than those for control subjects, who were also exposed to the environment but not focused on evidence that ...
Mark P. Zanna, 1991

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «LITTERED»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term littered is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Homes Under the Hammer trends on Twitter as Golf fans complain …
... coverage of the postponed final day of British Open golf from St Andrews. Tweets were littered with words like "shambles" and "disgraceful". «Radio Times, Jul 15»
2
Roadworks Set To Get Even More Annoying With Signs … - Yahoo!
That's right - soon you'll get a cheery message as you enter an area littered with roadworks, which will obviously make it all better. The jaunty ... «Yahoo News UK, Jul 15»
3
KSB stands by its government deposit scheme opposition …
A deposit will not prevent drinks containers being littered and will do absolutely nothing to prevent the littering of other items.” Coca-Cola ... «Packaging News, Jul 15»
4
Long wait for ticket machine is nearly over (From Echo)
"commuters could not get to the ticket office unless they walked across a bridge, which they claimed was dangerous and littered with drug paraphernalia" «Echo, Jul 15»
5
Chance the Rapper's Perfmance at Pitchfork Fest Proves He's the …
From the moment the gates opened, the crowd was littered with humans of all ages wearing Chance the Rapper-related memorabilia. «Complex, Jul 15»
6
Congress party threatens to block landmark GST bill
"Since this particular bill is neither and is littered with exemptions and unjustified provisions, we have given about a dozen amendments and we ... «Reuters, Jul 15»
7
Highway chase leads to arrest of suspect wanted for hitting multiple …
The truck then sped away, south on Princess Street. Glass and other debris were littered on the road beside the cars. Glenn Price, owner of a ... «CTV News, Jul 15»
8
How Noise Became Music - The New Yorker
Rock music is littered with young men luxuriating in the awesome power of amplified sound; that aspiration for a brooding, steady headbang ... «The New Yorker, Jul 15»
9
PREP SPORTS: North-South All-Star Week littered with local talent …
Cold Springs' Triston Chambers (3) shoots a fadeaway jumper during a home game vs. Tanner last season. Chambers is one of six local ... «Cullman Times Online, Jul 15»
10
Bloated Emmy categories littered with dubious nominees
Lisa Kudrow in "The Comeback"; Jeff Daniels in "The Newsroom"; Nicole Kidman in "Grace of Monaco." Photo: Colleen Hayes/HBO via AP; AP ... «New York Post, Jul 15»

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