Synonyms for plow
plaʊ

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1. plow, plough(verb)

   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, turn(verb)

   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, address(verb)

   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, plough(verb)

   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

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1. List of paraphrases:

   plough, cart, wedge

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How to use plow in a sentence?

1. Dwight D Eisenhower:

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

2. Luke Bryan:

   We feel like if we just stay positive through this, maybe we'll be a positive inspiration for people that had these things happen to 'em, you just have to plow on and play the hand that's dealt.

3. Ferréol of Uzès:

   [the monk] who does not turn up the earth with the plow ought to write the parchment with his fingers

4. Arabic Proverb:

   Make your bargain before beginning to plow.

5. Emmanuel Macron:

   Look where we are on welfare. We plow a chunk of cash into subsistence benefits, and people are still poor. There's no way out. People who are born poor stay poor, i'll spell out where we're at, that we're piling too much dough into a welfare system that's focused on corrective treatment.

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