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furrow

/ˈfʌɹoʊ/ verb C2
  1. To cut one or more grooves in (the ground, etc.). (transitive) · Cart wheels can furrow roads.
  2. To wrinkle. (transitive)
  3. To pull one's brows or eyebrows together due to concentration, worry, etc. (transitive) · As she pored over the company's bewildering tax documents, she furrowed her brows, wrinkled her nose, and began to frown her befuddlement.
  4. to become furrowed (intransitive)

He/she/it furrows · Past furrowed · Past participle furrowed · -ing form furrowing

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Verb forms

Base form
furrow
He/she/it
furrows
Past
furrowed
Past participle
furrowed
-ing form
furrowing

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The chief difficulty Alice found at first was in managing her flamingo: she succeeded in getting its body tucked away, comfortably enough, under her arm, with its legs hanging down, but generally, just as she had got its neck nicely straightened out, and was going to give the hedgehog a blow with its head, it _would_ twist itself round and look up in her face, with such a puzzled expression that she could not help bursting out laughing: and when she had got its head down, and was going to begin again, it was very provoking to find that the hedgehog had unrolled itself, and was in the act of crawling away: besides all this, there was generally a ridge or furrow in the way wherever she wanted to send the hedgehog to, and, as the doubled-up soldiers were always getting up and walking off to other parts of the ground, Alice soon came to the conclusion that it was a very difficult game indeed.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, p. 62 · B2
His thin face, deeply furrowed by care, and the bold outline of his strongly marked features, betokened a man more accustomed to exercise his mental faculties than his physical strength.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 139 · C1
Ferguson put his big hand to his furrowed forehead.
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, p. 67 · B2
The oval face was lengthened, his smiling mouth had assumed the firm and marked lines which betoken resolution; his eyebrows were arched beneath a brow furrowed with thought; his eyes were full of melancholy, and from their depths occasionally sparkled gloomy fires of misanthropy and hatred; his complexion, so long kept from the sun, had now that pale color which produces, when the features are encircled with black hair, the aristocratic beauty of the man of the north; the profound learning he had acquired had besides diffused over his features a refined intellectual expression; and he had also acquired, being naturally of a goodly stature, that vigor which a frame possesses which has so long concentrated all its force within itself.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 236 · C1

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