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strow

A form of strew — To distribute objects or pieces of something over an area, especially in a random manner.

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verbstrow (third-person singular simple present strows, present participle strowing, simple past strowed, past participle strown)

present singular third person strows · participle present strowing · past strowed · participle past strown

obsoleteObsolete form of strew.
Thick as autumnal leaves that strow the brooks / In Vallombrosa,[…].
1667, John Milton, “(please specify the page number)”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC
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How still the air within this forest brown; / So still, you hear the snow fall through the trees, / And on the yellow leaves beneath them strown; / And thick it falls, unwavered by the breeze, […]
1845, William Wilberforce, Poems, page 129
It was a manner much more turbid and strown with blemishes than the manner of Pindar, Dante, or Milton;[…].
1866, Matthew Arnold, The Study of Celtic Literature, Part IV: Conclusion: The Cornhill Magazine, volume XIV, page 111

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APA

strow. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/strow

MLA

“strow.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/strow. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “strow,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/strow.

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