sow
/soʊ/ verb C2- To scatter, disperse, or plant (seeds). · When I had sown the field, the day's work was over.
- To spread abroad; to propagate. · as you sow, so shall you reap
- To scatter over; to besprinkle.
He/she/it sows · Past sowed · Past participle sown · -ing form sowing
Verb forms
- Base form
- sow
- He/she/it
- sows
- Past
- sowed
- Past participle
- sown
- -ing form
- sowing
An irregular verb: learn its past and past participle by heart.
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Thomas Lynde--a meek little man whom Avonlea people called “Rachel Lynde’s husband”--was sowing his late turnip seed on the hill field beyond the barn; and Matthew Cuthbert ought to have been sowing his on the big red brook field away over by Green Gables.
Blair’s store over at Carmody that he meant to sow his turnip seed the next afternoon.
A FARMER placed nets on his newly-sown plowlands and caught a number of Cranes, which came to pick up his seed.
SOME CRANES made their feeding grounds on some plowlands newly sown with wheat.
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