strew
1 synonym for strew, grouped by meaning and by how common each one is.
Verb — To scatter things loosely over a surface or area.
Etymology
Came into English via Middle English strewen, strawen, streowen, from Old English strewian, strēawian, strēowian (“to strew, scatter”), which developed from Proto-West Germanic *strauwjan, from Proto-Germanic *strawjaną (“to strew”), from Proto-Indo-European *strew- (“to spread, scatter”). It is cognate with Scots stro...
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