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strow

strow is the obsolete form of strew.

Meaning of strew

Verb

strew (third-person singular simple present strews, present participle strewing, simple past strewed, past participle strewn or strewed)

  1. (dated, except strewn) To distribute objects or pieces of something over an area, especially in a random manner.
    • to strew sand over a floor
  2. (archaic) To cover, or lie upon, by having been scattered.
    • Leaves strewed the ground.
  3. (archaic, transitive) 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...
  4. To populate with at random points; to cause to appear randomly distributed throughout.
    • error-strewn

Forms of strow

third-person singular presentstrows
present participlestrowing
paststrowed
past participlestrown

Words formed from strow

Questions about strow

What is strow the obsolete form of?
Strow is the obsolete form of strew.

Words near strow in the dictionary

  1. strouts
  2. strove
  3. strovest
  4. stroviol
  5. stroviols
  6. strow
  7. strowed
  8. strowen
  9. strower
  10. strowers
  11. Strowger

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Adapted from Wiktionary: strow (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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