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Meanings of ploughed in English

Spanish
labrado

(Of farmland) broken and turned over with a plow.

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Usage of ploughed in English
1
Any profit made is ploughed back into the trust's health informatics service.
The Guardian
2
At an accelerated rate, Mugabe ploughed ahead with the shameless land grabs.
The South African
3
A spot was ploughed in the orchard between the rows of trees.
The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming.
4
The husbandmen had ploughed the fields and filled the furrows with seed.
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
5
And yet in the spring many of them ploughed shallow over battlefields.
Kings, Queens and Pawns: An American Woman at the Front
6
Those cost savings need to be ploughed back into the customer proposition.
The Guardian
7
This incident by the ploughed field explained the failure of the wire.
The Amateur Poacher
8
When items are sold, the money is ploughed back into the project.
The Guardian
9
The wind continued and ploughed and furrowed the surface into a mash.
South with Scott
10
The frozen furrows of the ploughed land crumbled beneath her heavy tread.
What Necessity Knows
11
Who sees the meaning of the flower uprooted in the ploughed field?
Summer on the Lakes, in 1843
12
Some of the land was ploughed, and some left till the spring.
Warlock o' Glenwarlock: A Homely Romance
13
The Wabbly was moving across the ploughed fields with a deceptive smoothness.
Morale: A Story of the War of 1941-43
14
He has finally ploughed through them all; he has extracted their essence.
The crimson petal and the white
15
It was ploughed up in 1827, but its plan was fortunately preserved.
Amusements in Mathematics
16
A bit of ploughed field in the midlands gives me more pleasure.'
The Whirlpool
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Translations for ploughed
Ploughed through the time
Ploughed across language varieties
Ireland
Common
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common