Usually means: Scatter or spread things around.
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  1. bestrew: Merriam-Webster
  2. bestrew: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bestrew: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. bestrew: Collins English Dictionary
  5. bestrew: Vocabulary.com
  6. bestrew: Wordnik
  7. bestrew: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. bestrew: Wiktionary
  9. bestrew: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. bestrew: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. bestrew: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Bestrew, bestrew: Dictionary.com
  13. Bestrew: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. bestrew: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. bestrew: Rhymezone
  16. Bestrew: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. bestrew: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. bestrew: FreeDictionary.org
  19. bestrew: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. bestrew: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bestrew: Legal dictionary

(Note: See bestrewed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (bestrew)

verb:  (transitive) To strew or scatter about; throw or drop here and there.
verb:  (transitive) To strew anything upon; strew over or about; cover or partially cover with things strewn; cover with straw or strewing.

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