Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to strew
Participle: strewn (E)
Gerund: strewing
Cognates
-
Indicative
Present
| I | strew |
| you | strew |
| he;she;it | strews |
| we | strew |
| you | strew |
| they | strew |
Perfect
| I | have strewn (E); strown |
| you | have strewn (E); strown |
| he;she;it | has strewn (E); strown |
| we | have strewn (E); strown |
| you | have strewn (E); strown |
| they | have strewn (E); strown |
Past
| I | strewed |
| you | strewed |
| he;she;it | strewed |
| we | strewed |
| you | strewed |
| they | strewed |
Pluperfect
| I | had strewn (E); strown |
| you | had strewn (E); strown |
| he;she;it | had strewn (E); strown |
| we | had strewn (E); strown |
| you | had strewn (E); strown |
| they | had strewn (E); strown |
Future
| I | will strew |
| you | will strew |
| he;she;it | will strew |
| we | will strew |
| you | will strew |
| they | will strew |
Future Perfect
| I | will have strewn (E); strown |
| you | will have strewn (E); strown |
| he;she;it | will have strewn (E); strown |
| we | will have strewn (E); strown |
| you | will have strewn (E); strown |
| they | will have strewn (E); strown |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | strew |
| you | strew |
| he;she;it | strew |
| we | strew |
| you | strew |
| they | strew |
Perfect
| I | have strewn (E); strown |
| you | have strewn (E); strown |
| he;she;it | have strewn (E); strown |
| we | have strewn (E); strown |
| you | have strewn (E); strown |
| they | have strewn (E); strown |
Imperfect
| I | strewed |
| you | strewed |
| he;she;it | strewed |
| we | strewed |
| you | strewed |
| they | strewed |
Pluperfect
| I | had strewn (E); strown |
| you | had strewn (E); strown |
| he;she;it | had strewn (E); strown |
| we | had strewn (E); strown |
| you | had strewn (E); strown |
| they | had strewn (E); strown |
Conditional
Present
| I | would strew |
| you | would strew |
| he;she;it | would strew |
| we | would strew |
| you | would strew |
| they | would strew |
Perfect
| I | would have strewn (E); strown |
| you | would have strewn (E); strown |
| he;she;it | would have strewn (E); strown |
| we | would have strewn (E); strown |
| you | would have strewn (E); strown |
| they | would have strewn (E); strown |
Imperative
| you | strew |
| we | Let's strew |
| you | strew |
Verbs similar to 'strew'
screw,
shrew,
stew,
straw,
atren,
bestrew,
brew,
crew,
enstrew,
grew,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- to scatter in different directions
- besprenge, desparple, disgregate, disparkle, disparple, disperple, disperse, distribute, dwindle, flurr, insperse, instrew, resperse, scatter, sparble, sparkle, sparse, sperse, spread, springe, squander, strinkle, todrive, togo, torat
- scatter
- cast, spread, bestrew, disseminate, sprinkle, overspread, broadcast
Antonyms
- scatter
- collect, concentrate, gather, preserve
Additional Information
The regular form is used in American English
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. O.E.
streowian, from P.Gmc.
*straujanan (cf. O.S.
stroian, O.N.
stra, Dan.
strø, Swed.
strö, M.Du.
strowen, Du.
strooien, O.H.G.
strouwen, Ger.
streuen, Goth.
straujan "to sprinkle, strew"), from PIE base
*stere- "to spread, extend, stretch out" (see structure).
2. 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”).
3. Cognate 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”). See: Old English '
strewian', Proto-Germanic '
*strawjaną', Dutch '
strooien', German, old spelling '
streuen', Swedish '
strö', Icelandic '
strá'.
Verbs referencing "strew"
Latin
sterno, German, old spelling
streuen, Latin
struo, Spanish
estragar, Galician
estrar, Dari
گستردن, Proto-Italic
strowō, Sanskrit
स्तृणाति, Sanskrit
स्तृणोति, Luxembourgish
streeën.
Sample Sentences
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[...] against the chimney-piece, with a great assumption of dignity and refinement of manner, sat an elderly female, in as many scraps of finery as Madge Wildfire herself. Her head in particular was so strewn with scraps of gauze and cotton and bits of paper, and had so many queer odds and ends stuck all about it, that it looked like a bird’s-nest. She was radiant with imaginary jewels; wore a rich pair [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] dressers standing in the open air without the door, whereon was ranged the household store, not hard to count, of earthen jars and pots. The eye was pained to see the stumps of great trees thickly strewn in every field of wheat, and seldom to lose the eternal swamp and dull morass, with hundreds of rotten trunks and twisted branches steeped in its unwholesome water. It was quite sad and oppressive, [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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But for this intimation, I should have let them lie upon the tables on which they were strewn with careful negligence, like books in a drawing-room: being quite satisfied with the stupendous silliness of certain stanzas with an anti-climax at the end of each, which were framed and hung up on [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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Tom rose, disconsolate, and stumbled into the cabin that had been allotted to him. The floor was already strewn with weary sleepers, and the foul air of the place almost repelled him; but the heavy night-dews were chill, and his limbs weary, and, wrapping about him a tattered blanket, which formed his only [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)