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💔 Ruin or failure 🌧️ A rain channel 🔪 A cleaning tool 🕯️ To flicker 🔧 To add rain channels 💧 To erode or cut 😮‍💨 To gasp or choke
to gutter

to gutter

1 6.0
To fit a channel along a roof edge to carry rainwater away
  • verb
  • /ˈɡʌtər/
  • Specialized
translation icon : instalar canalones
  • It is important to gutter your house before the heavy rains arrive to avoid flooding.

Examples

  • The contractor plans to gutter the new building to prevent water damage.

  • All structures on this street were recently guttered as part of the city's drainage improvement project.

  • Next week, we plan to gutter our old farmhouse to prevent water damage.

  • The workers guttered the new apartment building in only two days.

  • They need to gutter the house before winter.

  • We will gutter the roof this weekend.

  • After the storm, he had to gutter the edges of the roof to ensure proper drainage.

Antonyms

to remove
∞ 1.5

To move something or someone away from a place

Compounds

gutter press
  • Offensive
1 8.1

Newspapers or magazines that print scandal stories and invade people's privacy to sell more copies

Surface Forms

gutter infinitive
guttered past
guttered past participle
guttering present participle
gutters third person singular

Etymology

Gutter as a verb to fit gutters comes from the noun gutter (the roof channel); the verb was made by using the noun to mean 'putting in roof channels'. So to gutter a house is to install the rain channels.