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
All who have even a slight acquaintance with sagas know the extraordinary periphrases for common objects, for men and maidens, for ships and swords, that bestrew them.
From The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) by Saintsbury, George
The males alone are incurably careless, and will impudently bestrew the surface of the comb with their droppings, which the workers are obliged to sweep as they hasten behind them.
From The Life of the Bee by Sutro, Alfred
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