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/stɹuː/ · verb
(dated, except strewn) To distribute objects or pieces of something over an area, especially in a random manner..
to strew sand over a floor
The files had been strewn all over the floor.
Sweet flower, with flowers thy bridal bed I strew.
And strewed his mangled limbs about the field.
[…] I ſee Th’ Inſulting Tyrant prancing o’er the Field Strow’d with Rome’s Citizens, and drench’d in Slaughter, His Horſe’s Hoofs wet with Patrician Blood.
On a principal table a desk was open and many papers strewn about.
Leaves strewed the ground.
The snow which does the top of Pindus strew.
Use strew when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Strew means (dated, except strewn) To distribute objects or pieces of something over an area, especially in a random manner..
Common synonyms include scatter, sprinkle, straw.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
to strew sand over a floor
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