STREWING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does strewing mean? 

• STREWING (noun)
  The noun STREWING has 1 sense:

1. the act of scattering

  Familiarity information: STREWING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STREWING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of scattering

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

scatter; scattering; strewing

Hypernyms ("strewing" is a kind of...):

spread; spreading (act of extending over a wider scope or expanse of space or time)

Derivation:

strew (spread by scattering ()

 Context examples 

I passed the night under the shelter of a rock, strewing some heath under me, and slept pretty well.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)