strewverb [ T ]
uk/struː/us/struː/strewed, strewn or strewedto spread things in an untidy way over a surface, or to be spread in an untidy way over a surface:
They marked the end of the war by strewing flowers over the graves of 18,000 soldiers.
Wine bottles and dirty dishes were strewn across the lawn.
Her clothes lay strewn on the floor.
The park was strewn with litter after the concert.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Spreading and scattering
- all over the place idiom
- bedaub
- bestrew
- billow
- circulate
- fan out
- go round (somewhere)
- go/do the rounds idiom
- percolate
- radial
- radiate
- slap
- sprawl
- spread
- spread out
- sprinkling
- straggle
- stretch
- suffuse
- sweep
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