strew

strew is a 5-letter English word with 5 senses as transitive verb and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To scatter; to spread by scattering; to cast or to throw loosely apart; -- used of solids, separated or separable into parts or particles; as, to strew seed in beds; to strew sand on or over a floor; to strew flowers over a grave. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 8 · 5 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To scatter; to spread by scattering; to cast or to throw loosely apart; -- used of solids, separated or separable into parts or particles; as, to strew seed in beds; to strew sand on or over a floor; to strew flowers over a grave.
2. transitive verb. To cover more or less thickly by scattering something over or upon; to cover, or lie upon, by having been scattered; as, they strewed the ground with leaves; leaves strewed the ground.
3. transitive verb. To spread abroad; to disseminate.
4. verb. cover; be dispersed over

   "Dead bodies strewed the ground"

5. verb. spread by scattering ("straw" is archaic)

   "strew toys all over the carpet"

   Synonyms: straw

Synonyms

straw

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in strew:

trews, wrest

Common word forms

strews, strewed, strewer, strewing, strewment

Words from these letters

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