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plowed

/plou/US // plaʊ //UK // (plaʊ) //

耕种的,耕种,耕种了,耕地

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n.名词 noun
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    • : an agricultural implement used for cutting, lifting, turning over, and partly pulverizing soil.
    • : any of various implements resembling or suggesting this, as a kind of plane for cutting grooves or a contrivance for clearing away snow from a road or track.
    • : Type Founding. an instrument for cutting the groove in the foot of type.
    • : Bookbinding. a device for trimming the edges of the leaves by hand.
    • : Astronomy. the constellation Ursa Major.the Big Dipper.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to turn up with a plow.
    • : to make with a plow.
    • : to tear up, cut into, or make a furrow, groove, etc. in with or as if with a plow: The tractor plowed up an acre of trees.
    • : to clear by the use of a plow, especially a snowplow: The city's work crews were busily plowing the streets after the blizzard.
    • : to invest, as capital: to plow several hundred million into developing new oil fields.
    • : to reinvest or reutilize: to plow profits back into new plants and equipment.
    • : to cleave the surface of: beavers plowing the pond.to make or follow in this manner: The yacht plowed an easterly course through the choppy Atlantic.
    • : Slang: Vulgar. to have sexual intercourse with.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to till the soil or work with a plow.
    • : to take plowing in a specified way: land that plows easily.
    • : to move forcefully through something in the manner of a plow: The cop plowed through the crowd, chasing after the thief. The car plowed into our house.
    • : to proceed in a slow, laborious, and steady manner: The researcher plowed through a pile of reports.
    • : to move through water by cleaving the surface: a ship plowing through a turbulent sea.
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    • : plow under, to bury under soil by plowing.to cause to disappear; force out of existence; overwhelm: Many mom-and-pop groceries have been plowed under by the big chain stores.

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Examples

  • A remarkable snowstorm plowed through Buffalo, New York on Tuesday.

  • The real story of who killed bin Laden may have gone to the bottom of the ocean or been plowed back into the dirt in Abbottabad.

  • It has plowed those funds into building out its network and constructing new energy gardens.

  • As he plowed through what was then a terrifying, alluring setlist, the kids did something unthinkable.

  • In that, it will join the dozens of states who have plowed ahead with similar proposals.

  • She had built the stake-and-cap fences that divided the fields, and she boasted of the acres she had plowed.

  • And after the rains we look for Indian arrow-heads in the plowed fields and on the gravel bars of the creek.

  • He was thus, as he said, the first Englishman who "plowed a furrow around the globe."

  • It plowed on through the gravel, which shot up all round, and then the end of the bank seemed to fall away.

  • They plowed through the miry gravel, and falling face downwards, he rolled down the hill.