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STREWING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does strewing mean?
• STREWING (noun)
The noun STREWING has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: STREWING used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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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