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plow through

plow through is the US standard spelling of plough through.

Meaning of plough through

Verb

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

  1. To persevere with an activity of consuming something, both literally and figuratively.
    • I ploughed through two helpings, but then I didn't have room for any more.
  2. To forcefully make a passage to move through.
    • I managed to plough through the crowds and get to the information desk.

Forms of plow through

third-person singular presentplows through
present participleplowing through
past participleplowed through
pastplowed through
alternative formplough through

Questions about plow through

What is plow through the US standard spelling of?
Plow through is the US standard spelling of plough through.

Words near plow through in the dictionary

  1. plow stop
  2. plow stopped
  3. plow stopping
  4. plow stops
  5. plow the sands
  6. plow through
  7. plow under
  8. plow up
  9. plow with one's heifer
  10. plowable
  11. ploward

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Adapted from Wiktionary: plow through (page history and authors); plough through (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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