bə̇, bē+ transitive verb
( bestrewed or archaic bestrowed ; bestrewed also bestrewn or archaic bestrowed also bestrown ; bestrewing or archaic bestrowing ; bestrews or archaic bestrows )
Etymology: Middle English bestrowen, bestrewen, from Old English bestrēowian, from be- + strēowian, strewian to strew — more at strew
1. : to cover with objects lying scattered about : strew
with some flowers my grave bestrew — Robert Herrick †1674
a sea of blood bestrewed with wrecks — S.T.Coleridge
2. : to lie or be scattered over (as an area)
the isolated farmhouses of today which so liberally bestrew Ordnance Survey maps — J.H.G.Lebon