"Go, set the storm-winds free, / and sink their ships or scatter them astray, / and strew their corpses forth, to weltering waves a prey."
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Strew
//stɹu//
Synonyms for "strew" (46 found)
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2 entriesderived
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2 entriesrelated to
6 entriesTranslations
56 translations across 30 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- разпръсвам verb (to distribute objects or pieces of something)
- разстилам verb (to distribute objects or pieces of something)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 散開 /散开 verb (to distribute objects or pieces of something)
Czech
3 entries- rozházet verb (to distribute objects or pieces of something)
- rozptýlit verb (to distribute objects or pieces of something)
- roztrousit verb (to distribute objects or pieces of something)
Dutch
2 entries- bestrooien verb (to distribute objects or pieces of something)
- strooien verb (to distribute objects or pieces of something)
Finnish
3 entries- hajottaa verb (to distribute objects or pieces of something)
- levittää verb (to distribute objects or pieces of something)
- sirotella verb (to distribute objects or pieces of something)
French
2 entries- joncher verb (to distribute objects or pieces of something)
- parsemer verb (to distribute objects or pieces of something)
Friulian
1 entries- stierni verb (to distribute objects or pieces of something)
Galician
2 entries- espallar verb (to distribute objects or pieces of something)
- esparexer verb (to distribute objects or pieces of something)
German
1 entries- streuen verb (to distribute objects or pieces of something)
Ido
2 entries- dissemar verb (to distribute objects or pieces of something)
- trasemar verb (to distribute objects or pieces of something)
Indonesian
2 entries- menebar verb (to distribute objects or pieces of something)
- menyebar verb (to distribute objects or pieces of something)
Irish
2 entries- easraigh verb (to distribute objects or pieces of something)
- scaip verb (to distribute objects or pieces of something)
Italian
4 entries- cospargere verb (to distribute objects or pieces of something)
- disseminare verb (to distribute objects or pieces of something)
- ricoprire verb (to distribute objects or pieces of something)
- spargere verb (to distribute objects or pieces of something)
Japanese
2 entries- ばら撒く verb (to distribute objects or pieces of something)
- 散らす verb (to distribute objects or pieces of something)
Korean
2 entries- 흩다 verb (to distribute objects or pieces of something)
- 흩뜨리다 verb (to distribute objects or pieces of something)
Latin
2 entries- cōnsternō verb (to distribute objects or pieces of something)
- spargō verb (to distribute objects or pieces of something)
Māori
2 entries- whakapūreirei verb (to distribute objects or pieces of something)
- whārikiriki verb (to distribute objects or pieces of something)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- strø verb (to distribute objects or pieces of something)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- strø verb (to distribute objects or pieces of something)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- صاچمق verb (to distribute objects or pieces of something)
Persian
1 entries- افشاندن verb (to distribute objects or pieces of something)
Polish
1 entries- rozrzucić verb (to distribute objects or pieces of something)
Portuguese
2 entries- espalhar verb (to distribute objects or pieces of something)
- esparramar verb (to distribute objects or pieces of something)
Romanian
3 entries- așterne verb (to distribute objects or pieces of something)
- răspândi verb (to distribute objects or pieces of something)
- împrăștia verb (to distribute objects or pieces of something)
Russian
4 entries- насы́пать verb (to distribute objects or pieces of something)
- посы́пать verb (to distribute objects or pieces of something)
- разбра́сывать verb (to distribute objects or pieces of something)
- разброса́ть verb (to distribute objects or pieces of something)
Sanskrit
2 entries- स्तृणोति verb (to distribute objects or pieces of something)
- स्तृनाति verb (to distribute objects or pieces of something)
Spanish
1 entries- esparcir verb (to distribute objects or pieces of something)
Swedish
1 entries- strö verb (to distribute objects or pieces of something)
Telugu
1 entries- వెదజల్లు verb (to distribute objects or pieces of something)
Tocharian B
1 entries- kät verb (to distribute objects or pieces of something)
Sample sentences
12 total sentences available.
to strew sand over a floor
Source: wiktionary
The files had been strewn all over the floor.
Source: wiktionary
Sweet flower, with flowers thy bridal bed I strew.
Source: wiktionary
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.