strewed
/stɹuːd/
strewed is the simple past of strew.
strewed is the past participle of strew.
Meaning of strew
Verb
strew (third-person singular simple present strews, present participle strewing, simple past strewed, past participle strewn or strewed)
- To distribute objects or pieces of something over an area, especially in a random manner.
- to strew sand over a floor
- To cover, or lie upon, by having been scattered.
- Leaves strewed the ground.
- To spread abroad; to disseminate.
- She may strew dangerous conjectures.c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac...
- To populate with at random points; to cause to appear randomly distributed throughout.
- error-strewn
Forms of strewed
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Words that rhyme with strewed
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- lewd
- rood
- snood
- Jude
- denude
- extrude
- exude
- feud
- nude
- obtrude
- reclude
- stewed
- subdued
- transclude
- abrood
- delude
- hewed
- intrude
- oud
- pood
- screwed
- seclude
- skewed
- thewed
- you'd
- 'tude
- ablude
- abstrude
- accrued
- allude
- blued
- boo'd
- booed
- brewed
- Bude
- chewed
- chud
- clued
- collude
- construed
- cooed
- crewed
- cued
- debuted
- dzud
- fod
- frood
- glued
Questions about strewed
- What is strewed the simple past of?
- Strewed is the simple past of strew.
- How do you pronounce strewed?
- Strewed is pronounced /stɹuːd/.
Words near strewed in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: strewed (page history and authors); strew (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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