spread over vs strew

strew vs spread over

spread over and strew both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
spread over	No	No	Yes	No
strew	No	No	Yes	No

As verbs, strew is a hyponym of spread over; that is, strew is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than spread over:

spread over: form a cover over
strew: cover; be dispersed over

Other hyponyms of spread over include flood, bloody, mist, mist over, glaciate, cake, coat, drown, overwhelm, submerge, mantle, cloak, clothe, drape, robe, blanket, carpet, smother, shroud.

spread over (verb)	strew (verb)
form a cover over	spread by scattering ("straw" is archaic)
	cover; be dispersed over

Difference between spread over and strew

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