strewn

CEFRB2

/stɹuːn/

adjective

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In plain English

Examples

Don't leave your things strewn all over the floor.
Having these STD pamphlets strewn here on the coffee table sure is an inhibitor.

At a glance

Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

Also pronounced

Deep Dive

Extra meaning

In context

Unwashed dishes and dirty laundry were strewn about the room.
The completely-industrialised outskirts of Newcastle gradually give place to rural surroundings, and the Tyne becomes a moorland river with a boulder-strewn bed.
Baniyas was one of the towns worst hit by the violence. Residents there say bodies were strewn on the streets or left unburied in homes and on the roofs of buildings, with nobody able to collect them.

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The completely-industrialised outskirts of Newcastle gradually give place to rural surroundings, and the Tyne becomes a moorland river with a boulder-strewn bed.
1955 September, H. A. Vallance, “The Border Counties Line”, in Railway Magazine, page 593
Baniyas was one of the towns worst hit by the violence. Residents there say bodies were strewn on the streets or left unburied in homes and on the roofs of buildings, with nobody able to collect them.
2025 March 9, Malek Fouda, “More than 1,000 killed in Syria, most of them civilians, in sectarian violence”, in Euronews

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