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語源

From 中期英語 strewen, strawen, streowen, from 古期英語 strewian, strēawian, strēowian (“to strew, scatter”), from Proto-West Germanic *strauwjan, from Proto-Germanic *strawjaną (“to strew”), from Proto-Indo-European *strew- (“to spread, scatter”).

Cognate with Scots strow, straw (“to strew”), West Frisian streauwe (“to strew”), Dutch strooien (“to strew, scatter, sprinkle”), German streuen (“to strew, scatter”), Swedish strö (“to strew”), Icelandic strá (“to strew”), Norwegian Nynorsk strå (“to strew”).

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /stɹuː/　
• (米国発音) IPA: /stɹu/
• 韻: -uː

動詞

strew (third-person singular simple present strews, present participle strewing, simple past strewed, past participle strewn or strewed)

1. (dated, except strewn) 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.

   • c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii]:

     Sweet flower, with flowers thy bridal bed I strew.

   • 1697, Virgil, “Georgics”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:

     And strewed his mangled limbs about the field.

   • 1712 (date written), [Joseph] Addison, Cato, a Tragedy. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson, […], published 1713, →OCLC, Act I, scene i, pages 1-2:

     […] I ſee
     Th’ Inſulting Tyrant prancing o’er the Field
     Strow’d with Rome’s Citizens, and drench’d in Slaughter,
     His Horſe’s Hoofs wet with Patrician Blood.

   • 1880, [Benjamin Disraeli], Endymion […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC:

     On a principal table a desk was open and many papers strewn about.

2. (archaic) To cover, or lie upon, by having been scattered.

   Leaves strewed the ground.

   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, Prothalamion:

     The snow which does the top of Pindus strew.

   • 1733, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Man. […], (please specify |epistle=I to IV), London: […] J[ohn] Wilford, […], →OCLC:

     Is thine alone the seed that strews the plain?

3. (transitive, archaic) To spread abroad; to disseminate.
   • c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene v]:

     She may strew dangerous conjectures.

4. To populate with at random points; to cause to appear randomly distributed throughout.

   error-strewn

同意語

• scatter, sprinkle

派生語

関連する語

• strain
• streusel

アナグラム

• Trews, wrest, Werts, werst, trews