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Strewing

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Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. The act of scattering or spreading.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. The act of scattering or spreading.

n. Anything that is, or may be, strewed; -- used chiefly in the plural.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. Anything strewed, or suitable to be strewed (for some special purpose).

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. the act of scattering

Word Usage

"Whether it be the complete devastation wrought by nuclear weapons or an antique practice such as strewing salt in the earth of the defeated enemies, war is by its very nature destructive."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

spreading spread

Verb Stem

strew

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