plough
/plaʊ/ verb C2- To use a plough on soil to prepare for planting. · I've still got to plough that field.
- To use a plough. · Some days I have to plough from sunrise to sunset.
- To move with force. · Trucks ploughed through the water to ferry flood victims to safety.
- To knock over or run over (someone) without stopping. · My brother ploughed me over.· Three people were ploughed down when he lost control of the truck.
- To furrow; to make furrows, grooves, or ridges in.
- To run through, as in sailing.
- To trim, or shave off the edges of, as a book or paper, with a plough.
- To cut a groove in, as in a plank, or the edge of a board; especially, a rectangular groove to receive the end of a shelf or tread, the edge of a panel, a tongue, etc.
He/she/it ploughs · Past ploughed · Past participle ploughed · -ing form ploughing
Verb forms
- Base form
- plough
- He/she/it
- ploughs
- Past
- ploughed
- Past participle
- ploughed
- -ing form
- ploughing
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The Dog, and the Plough, and the Hunter, and all
"I saw that the word 'plough' was misspelt."
A few yards from the end the soil was all ploughed up into a patch of mud, and the branches and ferns which fringed the chasm were torn and bedraggled.
Fourteen years had changed the worthy merchant, who, in his thirty-sixth year at the opening of this history, was now in his fiftieth; his hair had turned white, time and sorrow had ploughed deep furrows on his brow, and his look, once so firm and penetrating, was now irresolute and wandering, as if he feared being forced to fix his attention on some particular thought or person.
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