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- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
strew \strew\, v. t. imp. p. p. strewed; p. p. strewn; p.
pr. vb. n. strewing. oe. strewen, strawen, as.
strewian, stre'owian; akin to ofries. strewa, os. strewian,
d. strooijen, g. streuen, ohg. strewen, icel. str=a, sw.
str"o, dan. str"oe, goth. straujan, l. sternere, stratum,
gr. ?, ?, skr. st?. root166. cf. stratum, straw,
street.
1. to scatter; to spread by scattering; to cast or to throw
loosely apart; -- used of solids, separated or separable
into parts or particles; as, to strew seed in beds; to
strew sand on or over a floor; to strew flowers over a
grave.
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and strewed his mangled limbs about the field.
--dryden.
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on a principal table a desk was open and many papers
were strewn about. --beaconsfield.
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2. to cover more or less thickly by scattering something over
or upon; to cover, or lie upon, by having been scattered;
as, they strewed the ground with leaves; leaves strewed
the ground.
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the snow which does the top of pindus strew.
--spenser.
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is thine alone the seed that strews the plain?
--pope.
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3. to spread abroad; to disseminate.
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she may strew dangerous conjectures. --shak.
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see also:
strewed strewn strewing stratum straw street
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