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plaw

plaw verb: to boil; seethe.

Verb

plaw (third-person singular simple present plaws, present participle plawing, simple past and past participle plawed)

  1. (intransitive) To boil; seethe.
  2. (UK, dialectal, transitive) To boil; boil slightly; parboil.

Noun

plaw (plural plaws)

  1. A boiling.
    • give meat a plaw

plaw meaning in Bengali

plaw in Bengali

সেদ্ধ করা, ফোটা, হালকাভাবে ফোটানো, ফোটানো

Forms of plaw

Verb
third-person singular presentplaws
present participleplawing
past participleplawed
pastplawed
alternative formplay
Noun
pluralplaws

Origin of plaw

From Middle English plawen, playen, plaȝen, from Old English plagian, a dialectal (Anglian) variant of Old English plegian (“to move about quickly, play”). More at play.

Words that rhyme with plaw

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Questions about plaw

What does plaw mean?
Plaw means to boil; seethe.
What is plaw in Bengali?
Plaw in Bengali is সেদ্ধ করা, ফোটা, হালকাভাবে ফোটানো. See Plaw meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is plaw?
Plaw can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of plaw?
The past tense of plaw is plawed.

Words near plaw in the dictionary

  1. Plautine
  2. Plautinian
  3. Plautus
  4. Plautz
  5. Plautzes
  6. plaw
  7. plaws
  8. Plawsworth
  9. play
  10. play a double game
  11. play a part

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: plaw (page history and authors); plaw (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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