Usually means: Scatter or spread things around.
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We found 28 dictionaries that define the word strew:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. strew: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. strew: Merriam-Webster
  3. strew: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. strew: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. strew: Collins English Dictionary
  6. strew: Vocabulary.com
  7. Strew, strew: Wordnik
  8. strew: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. strew: Wiktionary
  10. strew: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. strew: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. strew: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. strew: Dictionary.com
  14. strew: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. strew: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Strew: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. strew: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. strew: Rhymezone
  19. strew: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. strew: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. strew: FreeDictionary.org
  22. strew: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. strew: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. strew: Legal dictionary

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  1. strew: Encyclopedia

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Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. strew: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. strew: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See strewed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (strew)

verb:  (dated, except strewn) To distribute objects or pieces of something over an area, especially in a random manner.
verb:  (archaic) To cover, or lie upon, by having been scattered.
verb:  (transitive, archaic) To spread abroad; to disseminate.
verb:  To populate with at random points; to cause to appear randomly distributed throughout.

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