Synonyms for plow
plaʊplow

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1. plow, ploughverb

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

   Synonyms:
   plough

2. 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, release, reverse, wrench, rick, cover, treat, address, ferment, flex, work, plough, become, change state, deal

3. cover, treat, handle, plow, deal, addressverb

   act on verbally or in some form of artistic expression

   "This book deals with incest"; "The course covered all of Western Civilization"; "The new book treats the history of China"

   Synonyms:
   speak, overcompensate, extend, handle, cut through, deal, continue, comprehend, embrace, divvy up, spread over, grapple, cut across, apportion, encompass, consider, get over, process, lot, portion out, dole out, make do, shroud, accost, insure, brood, wield, make out, share, do by, plough, hide, take, administer, sell, parcel out, compensate, cross, come up to, turn, report, traverse, underwrite, breed, dispense, overlay, dish out, pass over, contend, enshroud, direct, allot, care for, track, get by, address, wrap up, distribute, cover up, carry on, cope, turn to, incubate, mete out, regale, get across, look at, treat, shell out, care, hatch, manage, deal out, palm, cover, conduct, call, trade

4. 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, plough, turn

Matched Categories

1. • Broach
   • Move

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1. List of paraphrases for "plow":

   plough, cart, wedge

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How to use plow in a sentence?

1. Evan Davis:

   Someday we'll look back on this moment and plow into a parked car.

2. Arabic Proverb:

   Make your bargain before beginning to plow.

3. Dwight D Eisenhower:

   Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.

4. Mitch McConnell:

   We're going to plow right through it.

5. Ryan Price:

   In the church, we have a saying, keep your hand on the plow, you're plowing hard ground, the roots of racism and inequity are deep … more reason to hold on tight and keep at it for the sake of truth, humanity and unity. The debate over critical race theory is in schools and government, but now it's starting to infiltrate and divide the Christian church. ( iStock) Critical race theory has begun to cause fissures in evangelical circles. In 2019 the Southern Baptist Convention, one of the most conservative Christian denominations, adopted Resolution 9, which accepted some of the tenets of CRT as a.