strewn

English

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /stɹuːn/
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  • (US) IPA(key): /stɹun/
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  • Rhymes: -uːn

Adjective

strewn (comparative more strewn, superlative most strewn)

  1. Covered, scattered or overspread with objects.

Verb

strewn

  1. past participle of strew
    Unwashed dishes and dirty laundry were strewn about the room.
    • 1955 September, H. A. Vallance, “The Border Counties Line”, in Railway Magazine, page 593:
      The completely-industrialised outskirts of Newcastle gradually give place to rural surroundings, and the Tyne becomes a moorland river with a boulder-strewn bed.
    • 2025 March 9, Malek Fouda, “More than 1,000 killed in Syria, most of them civilians, in sectarian violence”, in Euronews‎[1]:
      Baniyas was one of the towns worst hit by the violence. Residents there say bodies were strewn on the streets or left unburied in homes and on the roofs of buildings, with nobody able to collect them.
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