0 to spread things in an untidy way over a surface, or to be spread in an untidy way over a surface: --
We must therefore proceed along this road, in the knowledge that the road is strewn with obstacles.
People have not backed up their societies; the road of co-operation is strewn with the wrecks of societies.
They are dilapidated; they are falling down; rubble is strewn across areas surrounding tracks.
Then it was like a road when one of her fast-driving friends had passed, strewn with littered adjectives and a sense of scorching.
My study at home is strewn with pamphlets on this terrific problem of inflation going back to 1910 and 1913.
The route to the control of insider dealing is strewn with disaster.
It is probably festooned with cobwebs, strewn with horse bags, and with an all-pervading air of horse manure.
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.