overstrew

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English

Etymology

From over- +‎ strew.

Verb

overstrew (third-person singular simple present overstrews, present participle overstrewing, simple past overstrewed, past participle overstrewn)

  1. To strew or scatter over.
    • 1908, Thomas Hardy, The Dynasts, Part III, Act III, Scene III, page 108:
      Hot ordnance split and shiver and rebound,
      And firelocks fouled and flintless overstrew the ground.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “overstrew”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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