bestrew
Americanverb (used with object)
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to strew or cover (a surface).
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to strew or scatter about.
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to lie scattered over.
verb
Etymology
Origin of bestrew
before 1000; Middle English bistrewen, Old English bestrēowian. See be-, strew
Example Sentences
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Tears will bedew, if wigs do not bestrew the green.”
From Washington Post • Jul. 19, 2017
More than a decade after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, concrete security barriers still bestrew the east side of 23rd Street NW.
From Washington Post • Jun. 12, 2015
Uprooted trees, torn chunks of pavement and twisted iron fences bestrew the roadsides.
From Time Magazine Archive
Good-morrow to this primrose too; Good-morrow to each maid That will with flowers the tomb bestrew Wherein my love is laid.
From English Songs and Ballads by Crosland, T. W. H. (Thomas William Hodgson)
The pitfalls that bestrew their path are still numerous.
From Messages to the Bahá’í World: 1950–1957 by Shoghi Effendi
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