cospargere — meaning in English

English meaning

• riddle noun A question or statement phrased puzzlingly, meant to be solved for fun or as a test of wit.
• scatter verb To cause to separate and move in different directions.
• strew verb To distribute objects or pieces of something over an area, especially in a random manner.

Senses

cospargere is used for these senses in English:

• riddle (figuratively) To fill or spread throughout; to pervade (with something destructive or weakening).
• scatter (transitive) To distribute loosely as by sprinkling.
• strew (dated, except strewn) To distribute objects or pieces of something over an area, especially in a random manner.

riddle — full definition

1. noun A question or statement phrased puzzlingly, meant to be solved for fun or as a test of wit.
2. noun A coarse sieve used to separate finer material from coarser material, such as sifting gravel from sand.
3. verb To pierce something with many holes, or to fill it thoroughly with something, often something damaging.

scatter — full definition

1. verb To cause to separate and move in different directions.
2. verb To spread something loosely over an area.

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