0 to spread things in an untidy way over a surface, or to be spread in an untidy way over a surface:
These gardens were designed not to accommodate full body burials, but to provide a place in which cremated remains could be strewn or interred.
These are minorities which do not occupy geographically contiguous territories, but are strewn over various states and local government areas.
These haematite-rich 'berries ' weather out of the rock and are strewn across the surface.
Further, the route to the continental ice was relatively easy, although the ice-free terrain was hilly and strewn with glacial boulders.
The entrance to the keddah was strewn with the choice fruit and vegetables of elephants.
The road is strewn with abandoned vehicles.
One of my student assistants began one day a brief experiment in 'blind strewing' - sorting through the pottery spread out on large tables by touch and sound.
There is something to be said for pruning the number of ' revolutions ' historians have strewn across the past, but this seems to be a semantic quibble.