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mowed

UK/məʊd/

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Scotland/moːd/

mowed is the simple past and past participle of mow.

Meaning of mow

Verb (1)

mow (third-person singular simple present mows, present participle mowing, simple past mowed, past participle mown or mowed)

  1. (transitive) To cut down grass or crops.
    • He mowed the lawn every few weeks in the summer.
  2. (often, transitive) To cut down or slaughter in great numbers.
    • In the afternoon they attacked again, in close formation: our artillery mowed them, but they came on and on, […]1915, Captain Robert Palmer, Letters from Mesopotamia

Verb (2)

mow (third-person singular simple present mows, present participle mowing, simple past and past participle mowed)

  1. To make grimaces, mock.
    • For every trifle are they set upon me: / Sometime like apes that mow and chatter at me, / And after bite me;1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published...

Verb (3)

mow (third-person singular simple present mows, present participle mowing, simple past and past participle mowed)

  1. To put into mows.

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Words formed from mowed

Phrases with mowed

Words that rhyme with mowed

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Questions about mowed

What is mowed the simple past and past participle of?
Mowed is the simple past and past participle of mow.
How do you pronounce mowed?
Mowed is pronounced /məʊd/ (UK).

Words near mowed in the dictionary

  1. mowburning
  2. mowburns
  3. mowburnt
  4. Mowdy
  5. Mowdys
  6. mowed
  7. mowed down
  8. Mowell
  9. Mowells
  10. Mowen
  11. mower

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