strew

== English == === Alternative forms === strow, straw (dialectal) === Etymology === From Middle English strewen, strawen, streowen, from Old English strewian, strēawian, strēowian (“to strew, scatter”), from Proto-West Germanic *strauwjan, from Proto-Germanic *strawjaną (“to strew”), from Proto-Indo-European *strew- (“to spread, scatter”). Cognate with Scots strow, straw (“to strew”), West Frisian streauwe (“to strew”), Dutch strooien (“to strew, scatter, sprinkle”), German streuen (“to strew, scatter”), Swedish strö (“to strew”), Icelandic strá (“to strew”), Norwegian Nynorsk strå (“to strew”). === Pronunciation === (UK) IPA(key): /stɹuː/　 (US) IPA(key): /stɹu/ Rhymes: -uː === Verb === strew (third-person singular simple present strews, present participle strewing, simple past strewed, past participle strewn or strewed) (dated, except strewn) To distribute objects or pieces of something over an area, especially in a random manner. (archaic) To cover, or lie upon, by having been scattered. (transitive, archaic) To spread abroad; to disseminate. To populate with at random points; to cause to appear randomly distributed throughout. ==== Synonyms ==== scatter, sprinkle ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== strain streusel ==== Translations ==== === Anagrams === Trews, wrest, Werts, werst, trews == Middle English == === Noun === strew alternative form of straw == Yola == === Noun === strew alternative form of stre === References === Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 70