mowing

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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