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ploughed

ploughed is the simple past and past participle of plough.

Adjective

ploughed (comparative more ploughed, superlative most ploughed)

  1. Turned over with the blade of a plough to create furrows (usually for planting crops).
  2. (figuratively, rare) Well-trodden or well-researched, previously explored.
  3. (slang) Drunk.
    • they stacked the glass up + right up to the level that you would normally have if you had ice in your drink anyway + and consequently I got ploughed1983, Gillian Brown, George Yule, Discourse Analysis
    • "I said are you allowed to drink? You know, beer. Whatever. Isn't it against your religion?" […] There were a few kids at school who said they were Mormon, but that didn't stop 'em from getting ploughed, and other kids who went to church but smoke and drank and cussed and screwed.2020, Tom Leveen, Party

Meaning of plough

Verb

plough (third-person singular simple present ploughs, present participle ploughing, simple past and past participle ploughed)

  1. (transitive) To use a plough on soil to prepare for planting.
    • I've still got to plough that field.
  2. (intransitive) To use a plough.
    • Some days I have to plough from sunrise to sunset.
  3. To move with force.
    • Trucks ploughed through the water to ferry flood victims to safety.
  4. (colloquial, transitive) To knock over or run over (someone) without stopping.
    • My brother ploughed me over.
  5. To furrow; to make furrows, grooves, or ridges in.
    • Let patient Octavia plough thy visage up / With her prepared nails.c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard...
    Synonyms:
    chamfer, groove, rut
  6. To run through, as in sailing.
    • With speed we plough the watery way.1725, Homer, “Book II”, in [William Broome], transl., The Odyssey of Homer. […], volume I, London: […] Bernard Lintot, →OCLC

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Forms of ploughed

Verb
alternative formplowed
Adjective
comparativemore ploughed
superlativemost ploughed

Words formed from ploughed

Phrases with ploughed

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Words that rhyme with ploughed

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Questions about ploughed

What does ploughed mean?
Ploughed means turned over with the blade of a plough to create furrows (usually for planting crops).
What is ploughed the simple past and past participle of?
Ploughed is the simple past and past participle of plough.
What part of speech is ploughed?
Ploughed is an adjective.

Words near ploughed in the dictionary

  1. ploughbill
  2. ploughbills
  3. ploughbote
  4. ploughboy
  5. ploughboys
  6. ploughed
  7. ploughed a lonely furrow
  8. ploughed ahead
  9. ploughed back
  10. ploughed down
  11. ploughed in

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