littered
past simple and past participle oflitter
| 单词 | littered |
| 释义 | littered past simple and past participle oflitter litter verb uk/ˈlɪt.ər/us/ˈlɪt̬.ɚ/[T] tospreadacrossanareaorplaceuntidily: Theparkwas litteredwithbottlesandcansafter theconcert. Dirtyclotheslittered thefloorof herbedroom. be littered withsomething Aplace,document, or otherobjectthat is littered with something has orcontainsa lot of that thing: Thenewspaperhas areputationfor being littered withspellingmistakes. [I] todroprubbishon thegroundin apublicplace: People who litter often have nopridein thearea. Environmental issues
You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Full Rubbish and waste Falling and dropping Examplesoflitteredlittered In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. Our building stock islitteredwith historical examples of risky buildings, and many of them are excellent. From theCambridge English Corpus British politics, since the 1920s, has been, and still is,litteredwith such organizations. From theCambridge English Corpus Fortunately for the linguist the young child's speech islitteredwith errors. From theCambridge English Corpus The whole history of science islitteredwith false theories once taken for true by the best minds of the times. From theCambridge English Corpus The result, especially in the early chapters, is a textlitteredwith an embrassingly large number of stylistic infelicities, orthographic mistakes and occasional malapropisms. From theCambridge English Corpus The compounds arelitteredwith considerable quantities of marine shell, ash, sherds of cooking pots and other organics. From theCambridge English Corpus These poems are alsolitteredwith the bodies of dead fathers who fell in battle. From theCambridge English Corpus Many empty pods and seedslitteredthe ground, however, indicating a much larger initial crop size. From theCambridge English Corpus Puddles of blood and shattered glasslittereda two-block radius. From theCambridge English Corpus Densely written, the text islitteredwith shelf-marks and palaeographical comparisons. From theCambridge English Corpus Ultimately, such a path may doom the field to a slow and painful death; the history of psychology islitteredwith many such examples. From theCambridge English Corpus Hope must be for the best, but history and even our own lives arelitteredwith shortcomings, failures or worse. From theCambridge English Corpus The internet islitteredwith all kinds of child soldiers or war-affected children-related websites. From theCambridge English Corpus The review article islitteredwith emotive language. From theCambridge English Corpus That title is premised on the belief that the history of architecture islitteredwith passionate instances of the binary relationship. From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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