See strew in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"text": "to strew sand over a floor",
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"text": "The files had been strewn all over the floor.",
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"text": "Sweet flower, with flowers thy bridal bed I strew.",
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"ref": "1697, Virgil, “Georgics”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:",
"text": "And strewed his mangled limbs about the field.",
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"ref": "1880, [Benjamin Disraeli], Endymion […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC:",
"text": "On a principal table a desk was open and many papers strewn about.",
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"(dated, except strewn) To distribute objects or pieces of something over an area, especially in a random manner."
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"word": "散らす"
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"word": "흩다"
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"_dis1": "81 3 10 6",
"code": "fa",
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"sense": "to distribute objects or pieces of something",
"word": "افشاندن"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 3 10 6",
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"sense": "to distribute objects or pieces of something",
"word": "rozrzucić"
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{
"_dis1": "81 3 10 6",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to distribute objects or pieces of something",
"word": "espalhar"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 3 10 6",
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"sense": "to distribute objects or pieces of something",
"word": "esparramar"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 3 10 6",
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"word": "împrăștia"
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"_dis1": "81 3 10 6",
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"word": "răspândi"
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{
"_dis1": "81 3 10 6",
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"sense": "to distribute objects or pieces of something",
"word": "așterne"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 3 10 6",
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"roman": "razbrásyvatʹ",
"sense": "to distribute objects or pieces of something",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "разбра́сывать"
},
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"_dis1": "81 3 10 6",
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"roman": "razbrosátʹ",
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"word": "разброса́ть"
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"_dis1": "81 3 10 6",
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"word": "сы́пать"
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"_dis1": "81 3 10 6",
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"word": "насы́пать"
},
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"_dis1": "81 3 10 6",
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"roman": "posýpatʹ",
"sense": "to distribute objects or pieces of something",
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"word": "посы́пать"
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"_dis1": "81 3 10 6",
"code": "sa",
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"roman": "stṛṇoti",
"sense": "to distribute objects or pieces of something",
"word": "स्तृणोति"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 3 10 6",
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"roman": "stṛnāti",
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"word": "स्तृनाति"
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"_dis1": "81 3 10 6",
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"sense": "to distribute objects or pieces of something",
"word": "esparcir"
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"sense": "to distribute objects or pieces of something",
"word": "strö"
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{
"_dis1": "81 3 10 6",
"code": "te",
"lang": "Telugu",
"roman": "vedajallu",
"sense": "to distribute objects or pieces of something",
"word": "వెదజల్లు"
},
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"_dis1": "81 3 10 6",
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"sense": "to distribute objects or pieces of something",
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"text": "Leaves strewed the ground.",
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"ref": "1596, Edmund Spenser, Prothalamion:",
"text": "The snow which does the top of Pindus strew.",
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"ref": "1733, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Man. […], (please specify |epistle=I to IV), London: Printed for J[ohn] Wilford, […], →OCLC:",
"text": "Is thine alone the seed that strews the plain?",
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"To cover, or lie upon, by having been scattered."
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"(archaic) To cover, or lie upon, by having been scattered."
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"ref": "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 Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene v]:",
"text": "She may strew dangerous conjectures.",
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"To spread abroad; to disseminate."
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"(transitive, archaic) To spread abroad; to disseminate."
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"roman": "vedajallu",
"sense": "to distribute objects or pieces of something",
"word": "వెదజల్లు"
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