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Meaning of "overstrewn" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF OVERSTREWN

overstrewn  [ˌəʊvəˈstruːn] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF OVERSTREWN

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Overstrewn is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES OVERSTREWN MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of overstrewn in the English dictionary

The definition of overstrewn in the dictionary is scattered over.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH OVERSTREWN


bestrewn
bɪˈstruːn
Cameroon
ˌkæməˈruːn
croon
kruːn
Duntroon
dʌnˈtruːn
Gudrun
ˈɡʊdruːn
Iskenderun
ɪsˈkɛndəˌruːn
Kamerun
ˈkaməruːn
kroon
kruːn
macaroon
ˌmækəˈruːn
maroon
məˈruːn
octoroon
ˌɒktəˈruːn
patroon
pəˈtruːn
poltroon
pɒlˈtruːn
poultroone
pɒlˈtruːn
prune
pruːn
quadroon
kwɒˈdruːn
quintroon
kwɪnˈtruːn
roon
ruːn
rune
ruːn
strewn
struːn

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE OVERSTREWN

overstink
overstir
overstock
overstocked
overstory
overstrain
overstrained
overstress
overstretch
overstretched
overstrew
overstride
overstrike
overstrong
overstruck
overstructured
overstrung
overstudy
overstuff
overstuffed

WORDS THAT END LIKE OVERSTREWN

brown
crown
dawn
down
downtown
handsewn
known
lawn
out-of-town
oversewn
own
rough-hewn
sewn
shewn
shown
takedown
town
unhewn
unknown
unshewn

Synonyms and antonyms of overstrewn in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «overstrewn» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF OVERSTREWN

Find out the translation of overstrewn to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of overstrewn from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «overstrewn» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

overstrewn
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

overstrewn
570 millions of speakers

English

overstrewn
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

overstrewn
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

overstrewn
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

overstrewn
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

overstrewn
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

overstrewn
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

overstrewn
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Berlebihan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

overstrewn
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

overstrewn
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

overstrewn
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Overstrewn
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

overstrewn
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

overstrewn
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

Overstrewn
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

overstrewn
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

overstrewn
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

overstrewn
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

overstrewn
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

overstrewn
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

overstrewn
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

overstrewn
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

overstrewn
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

overstrewn
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of overstrewn

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «OVERSTREWN»

The term «overstrewn» is used very little and occupies the 191.530 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «OVERSTREWN» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «overstrewn» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «overstrewn» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about overstrewn

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «OVERSTREWN»

Discover the use of overstrewn in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to overstrewn and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Paul and Virginia of a Northern Zone: (Poul Og Virginie ...
overstrewn with implements, rafters, boards, and all imaginable things, which appeared and disappeared, emerged and were overwhelmed again. And over all the scene hung the heavy sky, with its low-lying clouds, like a gigantic sack, from  ...
Holger Drachmann, 1895
2
Kleinere Schriften: Publikationen aus der Zeit von 1911 bis ...
Chocolate-brown .glass, overstrewn with brilliant gold dots, with bottle-green glass stopper mounted on a white marble ring. Plain. 8. Agate-like brown-red stone with vertical streaky zones, of high specific gravity. Silver stopper in shape of a ...
Berthold Laufer, 1979
3
Avhandlinger Utgitt Av Det Norske Videnskaps-akademi i Oslo ...
The lungs overstrewn with miliary tubercles. The spleen not particularly enlarged. In the kidneys, which were moist and swollen, were numerous miliary and submiliary nodules. The intestine was likewise seen to be overstrewn with similar  ...
‎1938
4
Passages from the American Note-books of Nathaniel Hawthorne
In sunny spots beneath the trees, where green grass is overstrewn by the dry, fallen foliage, as I passed, I disturbed multitudes of grasshoppers basking in the warm sunshine ; and they began to hop, hop, hop, pattering on the dry leaves like  ...
Nathaniel Hawthorne, Sophia Peabody Hawthorne, 1868
5
Transactions of the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society
Probably a clay floor overstrewn with rushes. Around the walls are arranged a few articles of rude kitchen ware. The following is an inventory of the house of a chantry priest at Eccles, at the period we mention, and as his income was almost the ...
‎1888
6
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifth Annual Collection
They had been clever indeed, but there really was no good alternative to theold route; sothe new trailwound overstrewn white boulders, traversed unstable newsand cliffs, and veered wildly up and down muddy slides that had been hacked out ...
Gardner Dozois, 1988
7
The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine November 1883 to ...
In front, in the strong sunshine, the platform lay overstrewn with busy litter, as though the labors of the mine might begin again to-morrow in the morning. Following back into the canon, among the mass of rotting plant and through the flowering ...
‎1884
8
The New Monthly Magazine
... wrenched down the long boughs of the pines, stripped them, lashed the bare poles together, and covered them with lesser branches of the firs, overstrewn in turn by the yielding velvet moss of the forest, till they had formed a rude stretcher,  ...
‎1865
9
Life
A couple of hours later Reidar sat alone upon his verandah, looking idly at the garden, which was overstrewn with bottles and broken glass, and where the half - withered flowers lay trampled down upon the paths and grass- plots.
Johan Bojer, 1920
10
Sri Ramacaritamanasa:
... bolai anuja sana kaha II Cried one, 'Capture the two brothers alive, and having seized them, slay them and carry off the woman !' The vault of heaven was overstrewn with dust. Rama summoned his brother (Lakshmana) and said to him,  ...
Tulasīdāsa, R.C. Prasad, 1999

NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «OVERSTREWN»

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American Buffalo
The setting is an overstrewn junkshop (brilliantly designed by Santo Loquasto and outfitted by props coordinator Kathy Fabian, associate props ... «TheaterMania.com, Nov 08»

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