BESTREW (bestrewn)

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: bestrewn   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does bestrew mean? 

• BESTREW (verb)
  The verb BESTREW has 1 sense:

1. cover by strewing

  Familiarity information: BESTREW used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BESTREW (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they bestrew    ... he / she / it bestrews   
Past simple: bestrewed   
Past participle: bestrewed    / bestrewn   
-ing form: bestrewing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cover by strewing

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "bestrew" is one way to...):

straw; strew (spread by scattering ()

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

 Context examples 

Sometimes, as the road was cut through the pine woods that seemed in the darkness to be closing down upon us, great masses of greyness, which here and there bestrewed the trees, produced a peculiarly weird and solemn effect, which carried on the thoughts and grim fancies engendered earlier in the evening, when the falling sunset threw into strange relief the ghost-like clouds which amongst the Carpathians seem to wind ceaselessly through the valleys.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Ham carrying me on his back and a small box of ours under his arm, and Peggotty carrying another small box of ours, we turned down lanes bestrewn with bits of chips and little hillocks of sand, and went past gas-works, rope-walks, boat-builders' yards, shipwrights' yards, ship-breakers' yards, caulkers' yards, riggers' lofts, smiths' forges, and a great litter of such places, until we came out upon the dull waste I had already seen at a distance; when Ham said, Yon's our house, Mas'r Davy!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)