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Meanings of plowed in English

Spanish
labrado

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

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Examples for "ploughed"
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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
Usage of plowed in English
1
He's got seven hundred million dollars plowed into Prime Resource Investment Group.
Storm Front
2
It hadn't been plowed now in years, most likely since he left.
Stories: all-new tales
3
As a young girl, I plowed the fields of our family farm.
Reuters
4
Corinne hesitated a moment, then plowed ahead before she changed her mind.
The secret life of ceecee wilkes
5
The roads were dirt and were never plowed in the winter time.
The Biography of a Rabbit
6
Repayments and profits would be plowed into new loans, allowing rapid expansion.
Rising tide: the great mississippi flood of 1927 and how it chan...
7
That we plowed this new row, I was really thrilled with that.
Wired
8
They pulled vigorously, backstroking; the ungainly raft plowed across the hardening current.
Genellan: planetfall
9
At last the nose of the little craft plowed into the sand.
The Boy Allies with Uncle Sam's Cruisers
10
Though taken aback by the reaction he'd aroused, Patrick Furnan plowed ahead.
Dead as a doornail
11
James heard the whistle as the match plowed once again into motion.
James Potter and the Vault of Destinies
12
Ignoring it, I plowed forward, anger tensing every muscle in my body.
Devil Bones
13
Mann, who had introduced his first insulin pump in 1983, plowed ahead.
Reuters
14
Bruce was still further aided by the shell-plowed condition of the hillside.
Bruce
15
We landed on plowed ground on the other side of the fence.
The Meadow-Brook Girls by the Sea; Or, The Loss of The Lonesome ...
16
So after the man has plowed the ground he will harrow it.
Daddy Takes Us to the Garden / The Daddy Series for Little Folks
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