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

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. strew: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
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Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. strew: Idioms

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

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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.

Similar:
straw, bestrew, instrew, scatter, bestrow, sprawl, spatter, litter, overspread, stoor, more...

Opposite:
gather, collect, assemble, pile, accumulate

Types:
sprinkle, disperse, scatter, flourish, strewn, more...

Adjectives:
dead, great, high, vast, brown, sacrificial, patient, chequered

Colors:
    green,     yellow,     red,     orange,     brown,     purple,     pink,     blue,     white,     black


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Similar:
straw, bestrew, instrew, scatter, bestrow, sprawl, spatter, litter, overspread, stoor, more...

Opposite:
gather, collect, assemble, pile, accumulate

Types:
sprinkle, disperse, scatter, flourish, strewn, more...

Adjectives:
dead, great, high, vast, brown, sacrificial, patient, chequered

Colors:
    green,     yellow,     red,     orange,     brown,     purple,     pink,     blue,     white,     black



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