noun
- Tilling the land with a plow.
- usage: "he hired someone to do the plowing for him"
- synonyms: ploughing
verb
- To break and turn over earth especially with a plow.
- usage: "Farmer Jones plowed his east field last week"; "turn the earth in the Spring"
- Act on verbally or in some form of artistic expression.
- usage: "This book deals with incest"; "The course covered all of Western Civilization"; "The new book treats the history of China"
- Move in a way resembling that of a plow cutting into or going through the soil.
- usage: "The ship plowed through the water"
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