Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to clutter
Participle: cluttered
Gerund: cluttering
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | clutter |
| you | clutter |
| he;she;it | clutters |
| we | clutter |
| you | clutter |
| they | clutter |
Perfect
| I | have cluttered |
| you | have cluttered |
| he;she;it | has cluttered |
| we | have cluttered |
| you | have cluttered |
| they | have cluttered |
Past
| I | cluttered |
| you | cluttered |
| he;she;it | cluttered |
| we | cluttered |
| you | cluttered |
| they | cluttered |
Pluperfect
| I | had cluttered |
| you | had cluttered |
| he;she;it | had cluttered |
| we | had cluttered |
| you | had cluttered |
| they | had cluttered |
Future
| I | will clutter |
| you | will clutter |
| he;she;it | will clutter |
| we | will clutter |
| you | will clutter |
| they | will clutter |
Future Perfect
| I | will have cluttered |
| you | will have cluttered |
| he;she;it | will have cluttered |
| we | will have cluttered |
| you | will have cluttered |
| they | will have cluttered |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | clutter |
| you | clutter |
| he;she;it | clutter |
| we | clutter |
| you | clutter |
| they | clutter |
Perfect
| I | have cluttered |
| you | have cluttered |
| he;she;it | have cluttered |
| we | have cluttered |
| you | have cluttered |
| they | have cluttered |
Imperfect
| I | cluttered |
| you | cluttered |
| he;she;it | cluttered |
| we | cluttered |
| you | cluttered |
| they | cluttered |
Pluperfect
| I | had cluttered |
| you | had cluttered |
| he;she;it | had cluttered |
| we | had cluttered |
| you | had cluttered |
| they | had cluttered |
Conditional
Present
| I | would clutter |
| you | would clutter |
| he;she;it | would clutter |
| we | would clutter |
| you | would clutter |
| they | would clutter |
Perfect
| I | would have cluttered |
| you | would have cluttered |
| he;she;it | would have cluttered |
| we | would have cluttered |
| you | would have cluttered |
| they | would have cluttered |
Imperative
| you | clutter |
| we | Let's clutter |
| you | clutter |
Verbs conjugated like 'clutter'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'clutter'
chutter,
clatter,
clitter,
clotter,
cluster,
flutter,
blatter,
bluiter,
bluster,
butter,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. 1556, var. of clotern "to form clots, to heap on," sense of "litter" is first recorded 1666. (see clot).
2. 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”).
Sample Sentences
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That means about $165 billion was spent not on drumming up business, but on annoying people, creating landfill and cluttering spam filters. [2013 May 25, “No hiding place”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8837, page 74:]
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It battereth and cluttereth into knots and balls [1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “[Book XII.]”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. […], (please specify |tome=1 or 2), London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC:]
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It [the goose] clutter'd here, it chuckled there; / It stirr'd the old wife's mettle: / She shifted in her elbow-chair, / And hurl'd the pan and kettle. [1832, Alfred Tennyson, “The Goose”, in Poems. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon, […], published 1842, →OCLC, stanza VII, page 231:]