Strewn

Definition: Strewn

Strewn

Adjective

1. (used with `with' or in combination) covered by or as if by something scattered over or on; "the forest floor strewn with boulders"; "the petal-strewn aisle".

2. Being distributed here and there without order; "scattered leaves littered the sidewalk"; "don't forget to pick up the clothes lying strewn all over the floor".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "strewn" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Synonym: Strewn

Crosswords: Strewn

History is strewn thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill, but a lie, well told, is immortal. (references; author: Mark Twain)

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Books

• Alley Strewn Phrases (reference)

• The Leaf Strewn Path & the Interview (reference)

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NOAA aerial photography of damage caused by Hurricane Celia Airport hangar destroyed and aircraft strewn about. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Waquoit Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. Rubble strewn on beach following passage of Hurricane Bob on August 19,1991. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR).

Narragansett Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve A typical New England field strewn with boulders . Narragansett Bay is in the background. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR).

Dead Japanese soldiers strewn over a beach on Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, while U.S. Marines get the lay of the land and consolidate their positions. Credit: Library of Congress.

U.S. forces inflict heavy casualties on Japs in capture of Buna, New Guinea. Palm trees and branches lie strewn on the shell-churned soil of Buna Village, New Guinea, in the wake of the Japanese retreat before U.S. and Australian forces. The Japs were com. Credit: Library of Congress.

Port Farina beachside strewn with a wide assortment of Nazi military debris and a Nazi half-track in the water. Credit: Library of Congress.

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The interior of the barricade was so strewn with torn cartridges that one would have said it had been snowing.

He tried to warm his perishing joy in their scarlet glow, imagining a roseway from where he lay upwards to heaven all strewn with scarlet flowers.

Nay, sometimes the floor is strewn with dust on purpose, when the person to be admitted happens to have powerful enemies at court.

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Human Rights

Guatemala

Several hundred files containing personal information about street children with whom Casa Alianza works were strewn all over the floor. (references)

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Expressions using "strewn": strewn about ♦ strewn with flowers. Additional references.

Ending with "strewn": boulder-strewn, leaf-strewn, litter-strewn, rock-strewn, rush-strewn, stone-strewn.

Arabic 

‏متناثر (dispersed, lax, scattered, sparse, sprinkled, strewn about). (various references)

Chinese 

�''布 (strew, Strewed, strewing). (various references)

German

gestreut (diffuse, diffused). (various references)

Greek 

σπαρμένοσ (littered, planted, sown). (various references)

Hebrew 

זרוע (arm, forearm, limb, sown). (various references)

Hungarian

szétszórt (be scattered, diffuse, disorganised, straggling). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

散り敷く (to lie scattered or strewn about). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ちりしく (to lie scattered or strewn about). (various references)

Pig Latin

ewnstray

Romanian

participiu trecut de la strew. (various references)

Russian 

разбрасывать разбросанный (scattered, strewed). (various references)

Spanish

pp de strew. (various references)

Swedish

översållad. (various references)

Derivations

Words ending with "strewn": bestrewn, overstrewn. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Strewn" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Gstrein, sgrew, strean, stren, strent, strep, striw, Stroan, strow, Trecwn. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: nerts, newts, rents, stern, strew, terns, trews, wrens, wrest.

-2 letters: erns, erst, nest, nets, news, newt, rent, rest, rets, sent, sewn, stew, tens, tern, tews, wens, went, wert, west, wets, wren.

-3 letters: ens, ern, ers, net, new, res, ret, sen, ser, set, sew, ten, tew, wen, wet.

-4 letters: en, er, es, et, ne, re.

+1 letter: twiners, wanters, western, winters.

+2 letters: bestrewn, bestrown, brownest, crownets, networks, sternway, strewing, tinwares, twangers, westerns, wresting, wrongest.

+3 letters: brawniest, browniest, daneworts, entryways, honeworts, narrowest, newsprint, northwest, sternward, sternways, stoneware, stonework, stonewort, strewment, swartness, sweetener, teardowns, trawlnets, treelawns, twanglers, twinklers, undertows, unwariest, uptowners, wantoners, waterings, westering, westerner, whiteners, winterers, wintriest, wrestling.

+4 letters: bestrewing, bestrowing, brownstone, downstater, downstream, downstroke, downtrends, earwitness, enwreathes, handwrites, intertwist, interviews, interworks, midwestern, midwinters, miswritten, moneyworts, newmarkets, newscaster, newsletter, newsprints, newsworthy, nonwriters, northwests, overstrewn, pennyworts, presweeten, rainwaters, retwisting, scrawniest, skywritten, songwriter, spleenwort, sternwards, stewarding, stonewares, stoneworks, stoneworts, strewments, subnetwork, sweeteners, sweltering, swithering, tawdriness, treenwares, unworthies, unwreathes, waitperson, wanderlust, warbonnets, warrantees, warranters, warranties, wateriness, waterlines, westerners, westernise, westernize, winteriest, winterizes, wintriness, worriments, worthiness, wrestlings, wrinkliest.