Synonyms for plow
plaʊplow

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. plow, ploughverb

   a farm tool having one or more heavy blades to break the soil and cut a furrow prior to sowing

   Synonyms:
   plough

2. plow, plough, turnverb

   to break and turn over earth especially with a plow

   "Farmer Jones plowed his east field last week"; "turn the earth in the Spring"

   Synonyms:
   turn, move around, grow, call on, change by reversal, sprain, sour, turn over, twist, bend, wrick, deform, handle, release, reverse, wrench, rick, cover, treat, address, ferment, flex, work, plough, become, change state, deal

3. cover, treat, handle, plow, deal, addressverb

   act on verbally or in some form of artistic expression

   "This book deals with incest"; "The course covered all of Western Civilization"; "The new book treats the history of China"

   Synonyms:
   speak, overcompensate, extend, handle, cut through, deal, continue, comprehend, embrace, divvy up, spread over, grapple, cut across, apportion, encompass, consider, get over, process, lot, portion out, dole out, make do, shroud, accost, insure, brood, wield, make out, share, do by, plough, hide, take, administer, sell, parcel out, compensate, cross, come up to, turn, report, traverse, underwrite, breed, dispense, overlay, dish out, pass over, contend, enshroud, direct, allot, care for, track, get by, address, wrap up, distribute, cover up, carry on, cope, turn to, incubate, mete out, regale, get across, look at, treat, shell out, care, hatch, manage, deal out, palm, cover, conduct, call, trade

4. plow, ploughverb

   move in a way resembling that of a plow cutting into or going through the soil

   "The ship plowed through the water"

   Synonyms:
   cover, deal, handle, treat, address, plough, turn

Matched Categories

1. • Broach
   • Move

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "plow":

   plough, cart, wedge

Suggested Resources

1. PLOW

   What does PLOW stand for? -- Explore the various meanings for the PLOW acronym on the Abbreviations.com website.

How to pronounce plow?

How to say plow in sign language?

Words popularity by usage frequency

How to use plow in a sentence?

1. Chris Finch:

   Things are tough right now, we’ve got to plow through them.

2. Kelly Hannon:

   We know people have been stopped for extraordinary time periods leading up to these closure areas, but we are clearing trucks one by one to break through this blockage, and we will get to each driver and restore traffic flow, crews continue to work intensely to tow vehicles that are stuck and blocking the interstate near mile markers 136 in Stafford County, and then plow and treat the interstate to prevent follow-on crashes.

3. Dwight D Eisenhower:

   Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.

4. Arabic Proverb:

   Make your bargain before beginning to plow.

5. Terry McAuliffe:

   We got to get Democrats out to vote, we are facing a lot of headwinds from Washington, as you know. The president is unpopular today, unfortunately here in Virginia, so we have got to plow through.