Antonyms for plough
plaʊplough

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1. Ploughnoun

   Synonyms:
   Big Dipper, Wain, Charles Wain

2. ploughnoun

   To use a plough on to prepare for planting.

   The horse-drawn plough had a tremendous impact on agriculture.

   Synonyms:
   Wain, Charles Wain, Big Dipper

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1. • Ursa Major
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1. Big Dipper, Dipper, Plough, Charles's Wain, Wain, Wagonnoun

   a group of seven bright stars in the constellation Ursa Major

   Synonyms:
   estate car, station waggon, beach waggon, big dipper, roller coaster, paddy wagon, coaster wagon, water ouzel, plow, bufflehead, chute-the-chute, patrol wagon, beach wagon, butterball, black Maria, police wagon, waggon, station wagon, police van

2. plow, ploughverb

   a farm tool having one or more heavy blades to break the soil and cut a furrow prior to sowing

   Synonyms:
   plow

3. plow, ploughverb

   move in a way resembling that of a plow cutting into or going through the soil

   "The ship plowed through the water"

   Synonyms:
   cover, deal, handle, treat, address, plow, turn

4. plow, plough, turnverb

   to break and turn over earth especially with a plow

   "Farmer Jones plowed his east field last week"; "turn the earth in the Spring"

   Synonyms:
   turn, move around, grow, call on, change by reversal, sprain, sour, turn over, twist, bend, wrick, deform, handle, plow, release, reverse, wrench, rick, cover, treat, address, ferment, flex, work, become, change state, deal

How to use plough in a sentence?

1. Luke 962 Bible:

   And Jesus said unto him, 'No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.'

2. Woody Johnson:

   We're extremely confident in the ability of the UK to plough through this issue with Brexit and move on, she was the first foreign dignitary to visit the U.S. when he became president. So I think that symbolizes how he considers the importance of her leadership in this country right now.

3. Adel Al-Saleh:

   We plough on, we now have a portfolio that is fit for the marketplace - and the marketplace is changing dramatically.

4. G. K. Chesterton, The Tremendous Adventures of Major Brown:

   The discovery of this strange society was a curiously refreshing thing; to realize that there were ten new trades in the world was like looking at the first ship or the first plough. It made a man feel what he should feel, that he was still in the childhood of the world.

5. Heinrich Gotthard von Treitschke:

   Millions must plough and forge and dig in order that a few thousand may write and paint and study.

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