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bestrew

[ bih-stroo ]

verb (used with object)

bestrewed, bestrewed or bestrewn, bestrewing.
  1. to strew or cover (a surface).
  2. to strew or scatter about.
  3. to lie scattered over.


bestrew

/ ²úɪˈ²õ³Ù°ù³ÜË /

verb

  1. tr to scatter or lie scattered over (a surface)
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Origin of bestrew1

before 1000; Middle English bistrewen, Old English ²ú±ð²õ³Ù°ùŧ´Ç·É¾±²¹²Ô. See be-, strew
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Lafayette Square, bestrewed with garbage and covered with graffiti, looked terrible in the images that emerged, and the president didn’t look much better.

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Why, Daedalus wondered, are the world’s cities bestrewed with graffiti even though scientists, years ago, had perfected the porcelain enamel surfaces that make self-cleaning ovens possible?

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Tears will bedew, if wigs do not bestrew the green.â€

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Some he depicted as he saw them, bestrewn with marble stumps and fallen capitals.

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More than a decade after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, concrete security barriers still bestrew the east side of 23rd Street NW.

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