Diffusing and Strew

verb

• Move outward.
  • usage: "The soldiers fanned out"
  • synonyms: diffuse, spread, spread out, fan out
• Spread or diffuse through.
  • usage: "An atmosphere of distrust has permeated this administration"; "music penetrated the entire building"; "His campaign was riddled with accusations and personal attacks"
  • synonyms: permeate, pervade, penetrate, interpenetrate, diffuse, imbue, riddle
• Cause to become widely known.
  • usage: "spread information"; "circulate a rumor"; "broadcast the news"
  • synonyms: circulate, circularize, circularise, distribute, disseminate, propagate, broadcast, spread, diffuse, disperse, pass around

adjective

• Spreading by diffusion.
  • synonyms: diffusive, dispersive, disseminative

verb

• (v.) ()
  • synonyms: straw
• Cover; be dispersed over.
  • usage: "Dead bodies strewed the ground"

• (v.t.) To scatter; to spread by scattering; to cast or to throw loosely apart; -- used of solids, separated or separable into parts or particles; as, to strew seed in beds; to strew sand on or over a floor; to strew flowers over a grave.
• (v.t.) To cover more or less thickly by scattering something over or upon; to cover or lie upon, by having been scattered; as, they strewed the ground with leaves; leaves strewed the ground.
• (v.t.) To spread abroad; to disseminate.