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PLOWED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does plowed mean? 

PLOWED (adjective)
  The adjective PLOWED has 1 sense:

1. (of farmland) broken and turned over with a plowplay

  Familiarity information: PLOWED used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PLOWED (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

(of farmland) broken and turned over with a plow

Synonyms:

ploughed; plowed

Context example:

plowed fields

Similar:

tilled (turned or stirred by plowing or harrowing or hoeing)

Antonym:

unplowed ((of farmland) not plowed)


 Context examples 


It has been linked to active processes on Mars such as carbon dioxide gas geysers and lines on sand dunes plowed by blocks of dry ice.

(NASA spacecraft observes further evidence of dry ice gullies on Mars, NASA)

The sun had baked the plowed land into a gray mass, with little cracks running through it.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)



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