strewn
pronunciation
How to pronounce strewn in British English:
UK [stru:n]
How to pronounce strewn in American English:
US [strun]
-
- Adjective:
- (used with `with' or in combination) covered by or as if by something scattered over or on
- being distributed here and there without order
Word Origin
- strewn
- past participle of strew (v.).
Example
- 1. Portraits of former soviet leaders are strewn in pripyat .
- 2. A crowd gathers around four bodies strewn over hardened volcanic rock .
- 3. Journalists and state-television reporters who were allowed near the scene of the blast described body parts strewn around minibuses hit in the busy residential and commercial area .
- 4. Its white-walled monastery is strewn with colourful flags and banners .
- 5. Television footage showed a smouldering crater strewn with mangled wreckage , with a large piece of wing lying in farmland .