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STREWING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does strewing mean? 

STREWING (noun)
  The noun STREWING has 1 sense:

1. the act of scatteringplay

  Familiarity information: STREWING used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


STREWING (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of scattering

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

scatter; scattering; strewing

Hypernyms ("strewing" is a kind of...):

spread; spreading (act of extending over a wider scope or expanse of space or time)

Derivation:

strew (spread by scattering ()


 Context examples 


I passed the night under the shelter of a rock, strewing some heath under me, and slept pretty well.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)



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