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"text": "to strew sand over a floor",
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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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"roman": "razprǎsvam",
"sense": "to distribute objects or pieces of something",
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"sense": "to distribute objects or pieces of something",
"word": "散開"
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"sense": "to distribute objects or pieces of something",
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"sense": "to distribute objects or pieces of something",
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},
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"sense": "to distribute objects or pieces of something",
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"sense": "to distribute objects or pieces of something",
"word": "sirotella"
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"_dis1": "81 3 10 6",
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"sense": "to distribute objects or pieces of something",
"word": "levittää"
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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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},
{
"_dis1": "81 3 10 6",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to distribute objects or pieces of something",
"word": "parsemer"
},
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},
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"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "to distribute objects or pieces of something",
"word": "espallar"
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"_dis1": "81 3 10 6",
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"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "to distribute objects or pieces of something",
"word": "esparexer"
},
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"_dis1": "81 3 10 6",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to distribute objects or pieces of something",
"word": "streuen"
},
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"_dis1": "81 3 10 6",
"code": "io",
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"sense": "to distribute objects or pieces of something",
"word": "trasemar"
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"_dis1": "81 3 10 6",
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"word": "dissemar"
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"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "to distribute objects or pieces of something",
"word": "menyebar"
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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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"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "to distribute objects or pieces of something",
"word": "easraigh"
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"_dis1": "81 3 10 6",
"code": "it",
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"sense": "to distribute objects or pieces of something",
"word": "spargere"
},
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"_dis1": "81 3 10 6",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to distribute objects or pieces of something",
"word": "disseminare"
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"_dis1": "81 3 10 6",
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"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to distribute objects or pieces of something",
"word": "cospargere"
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"_dis1": "81 3 10 6",
"code": "it",
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"sense": "to distribute objects or pieces of something",
"word": "ricoprire"
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{
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"alt": "ちらす",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "chirasu",
"sense": "to distribute objects or pieces of something",
"word": "散らす"
},
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"_dis1": "81 3 10 6",
"alt": "ばらまく",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "baramaku",
"sense": "to distribute objects or pieces of something",
"word": "ばら撒く"
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"_dis1": "81 3 10 6",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "heutda",
"sense": "to distribute objects or pieces of something",
"word": "흩다"
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"_dis1": "81 3 10 6",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "heuttteurida",
"sense": "to distribute objects or pieces of something",
"word": "흩뜨리다"
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"sense": "to distribute objects or pieces of something",
"word": "spargō"
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"_dis1": "81 3 10 6",
"code": "la",
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"sense": "to distribute objects or pieces of something",
"word": "cōnsternō"
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"_dis1": "81 3 10 6",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to distribute objects or pieces of something",
"word": "whārikiriki"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 3 10 6",
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"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to distribute objects or pieces of something",
"word": "whakapūreirei"
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"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "to distribute objects or pieces of something",
"word": "strø"
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"code": "nn",
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"sense": "to distribute objects or pieces of something",
"word": "strø"
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{
"_dis1": "81 3 10 6",
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "afšândan",
"sense": "to distribute objects or pieces of something",
"word": "افشاندن"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 3 10 6",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"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",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to distribute objects or pieces of something",
"word": "esparramar"
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{
"_dis1": "81 3 10 6",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to distribute objects or pieces of something",
"word": "împrăștia"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 3 10 6",
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"sense": "to distribute objects or pieces of something",
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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",
"code": "ru",
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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",
"sense": "to distribute objects or pieces of something",
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"perfective"
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"_dis1": "81 3 10 6",
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"roman": "sýpatʹ",
"sense": "to distribute objects or pieces of something",
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"imperfective"
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"word": "сы́пать"
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"_dis1": "81 3 10 6",
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"roman": "nasýpatʹ",
"sense": "to distribute objects or pieces of something",
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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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{
"_dis1": "81 3 10 6",
"code": "sa",
"lang": "Sanskrit",
"roman": "stṛṇoti",
"sense": "to distribute objects or pieces of something",
"word": "स्तृणोति"
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{
"_dis1": "81 3 10 6",
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"roman": "stṛnāti",
"sense": "to distribute objects or pieces of something",
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},
{
"_dis1": "81 3 10 6",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to distribute objects or pieces of something",
"word": "esparcir"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 3 10 6",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to distribute objects or pieces of something",
"word": "strö"
},
{
"_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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"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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"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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"To spread abroad; to disseminate."
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"(transitive, archaic) To spread abroad; to disseminate."
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"expansion": "Scots strow",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "sco",
"2": "straw",
"3": "",
"4": "to strew"
},
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"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "fy",
"2": "streauwe",
"3": "",
"4": "to strew"
},
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"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nl",
"2": "strooien",
"3": "",
"4": "to strew, scatter, sprinkle"
},
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"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "de",
"2": "streuen",
"3": "",
"4": "to strew, scatter"
},
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"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "sv",
"2": "strö",
"3": "",
"4": "to strew"
},
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"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "is",
"2": "strá",
"3": "",
"4": "to strew"
},
"expansion": "Icelandic strá (“to strew”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nn",
"2": "strå",
"3": "",
"4": "to strew"
},
"expansion": "Norwegian Nynorsk strå (“to strew”)",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle English strewen, strawen, streowen, from Old English strewian, strēawian, strēowian (“to strew, scatter”), from Proto-West Germanic *strauwjan, from Proto-Germanic *strawjaną (“to strew”), from Proto-Indo-European *strew- (“to spread, scatter”).\nCognates\nCognate with Scots strow, straw (“to strew”), West Frisian streauwe (“to strew”), Dutch strooien (“to strew, scatter, sprinkle”), German streuen (“to strew, scatter”), Swedish strö (“to strew”), Icelandic strá (“to strew”), Norwegian Nynorsk strå (“to strew”).",
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{
"form": "strews",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "strewing",
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"present"
]
},
{
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"past"
]
},
{
"form": "strewn",
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"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "strewed",
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"participle",
"past"
]
}
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"args": {
"1": "",
"2": "",
"3": "",
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"past_ptc2": "strewed"
},
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"name": "en-verb"
}
],
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"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
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{
"word": "strain"
},
{
"word": "streusel"
}
],
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"categories": [
"English dated terms",
"English terms with usage examples"
],
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{
"text": "to strew sand over a floor",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "The files had been strewn all over the floor.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To distribute objects or pieces of something over an area, especially in a random manner."
],
"links": [
[
"strewn",
"strewn#English"
],
[
"distribute",
"distribute"
],
[
"random",
"random"
]
],
"qualifier": "except strewn",
"raw_glosses": [
"(dated, except strewn) To distribute objects or pieces of something over an area, especially in a random manner."
],
"tags": [
"dated"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with archaic senses",
"English terms with quotations",
"English terms with usage examples",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "Leaves strewed the ground.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "1596, Edmund Spenser, Prothalamion",
"text": "The snow which does the top of Pindus strew.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To cover, or lie upon, by having been scattered."
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(archaic) To cover, or lie upon, by having been scattered."
],
"tags": [
"archaic"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with archaic senses",
"English transitive verbs"
],
"glosses": [
"To spread abroad; to disseminate."
],
"links": [
[
"spread",
"spread"
],
[
"abroad",
"abroad"
],
[
"disseminate",
"disseminate"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive, archaic) To spread abroad; to disseminate."
],
"tags": [
"archaic",
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "error-strewn",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To populate with at random points; to cause to appear randomly distributed throughout."
],
"links": [
[
"populate",
"populate"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/stɹuː/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/stɹu/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-uː"
},
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"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "scatter"
},
{
"word": "sprinkle"
},
{
"word": "strow"
},
{
"tags": [
"dialectal"
],
"word": "straw"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "razprǎsvam",
"sense": "to distribute objects or pieces of something",
"word": "разпръсвам"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "razstilam",
"sense": "to distribute objects or pieces of something",
"word": "разстилам"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "to distribute objects or pieces of something",
"word": "散開"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "sànkāi",
"sense": "to distribute objects or pieces of something",
"word": "散开"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to distribute objects or pieces of something",
"word": "rozházet"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to distribute objects or pieces of something",
"word": "roztrousit"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to distribute objects or pieces of something",
"word": "rozptýlit"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to distribute objects or pieces of something",
"word": "strooien"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to distribute objects or pieces of something",
"word": "bestrooien"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to distribute objects or pieces of something",
"word": "sirotella"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to distribute objects or pieces of something",
"word": "levittää"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to distribute objects or pieces of something",
"word": "hajottaa"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to distribute objects or pieces of something",
"word": "parsemer"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to distribute objects or pieces of something",
"word": "joncher"
},
{
"code": "fur",
"lang": "Friulian",
"sense": "to distribute objects or pieces of something",
"word": "stierni"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "to distribute objects or pieces of something",
"word": "espallar"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "to distribute objects or pieces of something",
"word": "esparexer"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to distribute objects or pieces of something",
"word": "streuen"
},
{
"code": "io",
"lang": "Ido",
"sense": "to distribute objects or pieces of something",
"word": "trasemar"
},
{
"code": "io",
"lang": "Ido",
"sense": "to distribute objects or pieces of something",
"word": "dissemar"
},
{
"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "to distribute objects or pieces of something",
"word": "menyebar"
},
{
"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "to distribute objects or pieces of something",
"word": "menebar"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "to distribute objects or pieces of something",
"word": "easraigh"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to distribute objects or pieces of something",
"word": "spargere"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to distribute objects or pieces of something",
"word": "disseminare"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to distribute objects or pieces of something",
"word": "cospargere"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to distribute objects or pieces of something",
"word": "ricoprire"
},
{
"alt": "ちらす",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "chirasu",
"sense": "to distribute objects or pieces of something",
"word": "散らす"
},
{
"alt": "ばらまく",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "baramaku",
"sense": "to distribute objects or pieces of something",
"word": "ばら撒く"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "heutda",
"sense": "to distribute objects or pieces of something",
"word": "흩다"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "heuttteurida",
"sense": "to distribute objects or pieces of something",
"word": "흩뜨리다"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "to distribute objects or pieces of something",
"word": "spargō"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "to distribute objects or pieces of something",
"word": "cōnsternō"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to distribute objects or pieces of something",
"word": "whārikiriki"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to distribute objects or pieces of something",
"word": "whakapūreirei"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "to distribute objects or pieces of something",
"word": "strø"
},
{
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "to distribute objects or pieces of something",
"word": "strø"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "afšândan",
"sense": "to distribute objects or pieces of something",
"word": "افشاندن"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to distribute objects or pieces of something",
"word": "rozrzucić"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to distribute objects or pieces of something",
"word": "espalhar"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to distribute objects or pieces of something",
"word": "esparramar"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to distribute objects or pieces of something",
"word": "împrăștia"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to distribute objects or pieces of something",
"word": "răspândi"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to distribute objects or pieces of something",
"word": "așterne"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "razbrásyvatʹ",
"sense": "to distribute objects or pieces of something",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "разбра́сывать"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "razbrosátʹ",
"sense": "to distribute objects or pieces of something",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "разброса́ть"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "sýpatʹ",
"sense": "to distribute objects or pieces of something",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "сы́пать"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "nasýpatʹ",
"sense": "to distribute objects or pieces of something",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "насы́пать"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "posýpatʹ",
"sense": "to distribute objects or pieces of something",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "посы́пать"
},
{
"code": "sa",
"lang": "Sanskrit",
"roman": "stṛṇoti",
"sense": "to distribute objects or pieces of something",
"word": "स्तृणोति"
},
{
"code": "sa",
"lang": "Sanskrit",
"roman": "stṛnāti",
"sense": "to distribute objects or pieces of something",
"word": "स्तृनाति"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to distribute objects or pieces of something",
"word": "esparcir"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to distribute objects or pieces of something",
"word": "strö"
},
{
"code": "te",
"lang": "Telugu",
"roman": "vedajallu",
"sense": "to distribute objects or pieces of something",
"word": "వెదజల్లు"
},
{
"code": "txb",
"lang": "Tocharian B",
"sense": "to distribute objects or pieces of something",
"word": "kät-"
}
],
"word": "strew"
}
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