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overstraw

overstraw is the obsolete form of overstrew.

Meaning of overstrew

Verb

overstrew (third-person singular simple present overstrews, present participle overstrewing, simple past overstrewed, past participle overstrewn)

  1. To strew or scatter over.
    • Hot ordnance split and shiver and rebound,
      And firelocks fouled and flintless overstrew the ground.1908, Thomas Hardy, The Dynasts, Part III, Act III, Scene III, page 108

Forms of overstraw

third-person singular presentoverstraws
present participleoverstrawing
pastoverstrawed
past participleoverstrawn

Questions about overstraw

What is overstraw the obsolete form of?
Overstraw is the obsolete form of overstrew.

Words near overstraw in the dictionary

  1. overstratified
  2. overstratifies
  3. overstratify
  4. overstratifying
  5. overstratum
  6. overstraw
  7. overstrawed
  8. overstrawing
  9. overstrawn
  10. overstraws
  11. overstream

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Adapted from Wiktionary: overstraw (page history and authors); overstrew (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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