Strew vs. Sow
Difference Between Strew and Sow
Strew➦
To spread here and there; scatter or distribute
strewing flowers down the aisle.
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Sow➦
To scatter (seed) over the ground for growing.
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Strew➦
To distribute something over (an area or surface)
"Italy ... was strewn thick with the remains of Roman buildings" (Bernard Berenson).
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Sow➦
To scatter seed over (land, for example).
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Strew➦
To be or become dispersed over (a surface)
"Enemy is retiring ... His dead men and horses strew the roads" (Jeb Stuart).
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Sow➦
To strew something around or over (an area); distribute something over
"The yard was sown with cement sculpture" (Ashley Warlick).
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Strew➦
To spread (something) over a wide area; disseminate.
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Sow➦
To propagate; disseminate
sow rumors.
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Strew➦
To distribute objects or pieces of something over an area, especially in a random manner.
to strew sand over a floor
The files had been strewn all over the floor.
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Sow➦
To scatter seed for growing.
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Strew➦
(archaic) To cover, or lie upon, by having been scattered.
Leaves strewed the ground.
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Sow➦
An adult female pig, especially one that has had at least one litter.
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Strew➦
To spread abroad; to disseminate.
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Sow➦
The adult female of several other animals, such as the bear.
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Strew➦
To populate with at random points; to cause to appear randomly distributed throughout.
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Sow➦
A channel that conducts molten iron to the molds in a pig bed.
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Strew➦
To scatter; to spread by scattering; to cast or to throw loosely apart; - used of solids, separated or separable into parts or particles; as, to strew seed in beds; to strew sand on or over a floor; to strew flowers over a grave.
And strewed his mangled limbs about the field.
On a principal table a desk was open and many papers [were] strewn about.
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Sow➦
The mass of metal solidified in such a channel or mold.
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Strew➦
To cover more or less thickly by scattering something over or upon; to cover, or lie upon, by having been scattered; as, they strewed the ground with leaves; leaves strewed the ground.
The snow which does the top of Pindus strew.
Is thine alone the seed that strews the plain?
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Sow➦
A female pig.
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Strew➦
To spread abroad; to disseminate.
She may strew dangerous conjectures.
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Sow➦
A female bear, she-bear.
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Strew➦
spread by scattering (
straw
strew toys all over the carpet
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Sow➦
A female guinea pig.
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Strew➦
cover; be dispersed over;
Dead bodies strewed the ground
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Sow➦
A channel that conducts molten metal to molds.
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Sow➦
A mass of metal solidified in a mold.
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Sow➦
A contemptible, often fat woman.
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Sow➦
A sowbug.
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Sow➦
(military) A kind of covered shed, formerly used by besiegers in filling up and passing the ditch of a besieged place, sapping and mining the wall, etc.
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Sow➦
(ambitransitive) To scatter, disperse, or plant (seeds).
When I had sown the field, the day's work was over.
As you sow, so shall you reap.
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Sow➦
(figurative) To spread abroad; to propagate.
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Sow➦
(figurative) To scatter over; to besprinkle.
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Sow➦
obsolete spelling of sew
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Sow➦
To sew. See Sew.
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Sow➦
To scatter, as seed, upon the earth; to plant by strewing; as, to sow wheat. Also used figuratively: To spread abroad; to propagate.
A sower went forth to sow; and when he sowed, some seeds fell by the wayside.
And sow dissension in the hearts of brothers.
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Sow➦
To scatter seed upon, in, or over; to supply or stock, as land, with seeds. Also used figuratively: To scatter over; to besprinkle.
The intellectual faculty is a goodly field, . . . and it is the worst husbandry in the world to sow it with trifles.
[He] sowed with stars the heaven.
Now morn . . . sowed the earth with orient pearl.
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Sow➦
To scatter seed for growth and the production of a crop; - literally or figuratively.
They that sow in tears shall reap in joi.
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Sow➦
The female of swine, or of the hog kind.
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Sow➦
A sow bug.
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Sow➦
A channel or runner which receives the rows of molds in the pig bed.
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Sow➦
A kind of covered shed, formerly used by besiegers in filling up and passing the ditch of a besieged place, sapping and mining the wall, or the like.
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Sow➦
an adult female hog
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Sow➦
place (seeds) in or on the ground for future growth;
She sowed sunflower seeds
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Sow➦
introduce into an environment;
sow suspicion or beliefs
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Sow➦
place seeds in or on (the ground);
sow the ground with sunflower seeds
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