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Ploughing vs Plowed - What's the difference?

ploughing | plowed |

As verbs the difference between ploughing and plowed

is that ploughing is while plowed is (plow).

As a noun ploughing

is the breaking of the ground into furrows (with a plough) for planting.

As an adjective plowed is

turned over with the blade of a plow to create furrows (usually for planting crops).

ploughing

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en-noun)
  • the breaking of the ground into furrows (with a plough) for planting.

    • plowed

    English

    Alternative forms

    * ploughed

    Verb

    (head)
  • (plow)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Turned over with the blade of a plow to create furrows (usually for planting crops).
  • (figuratively, rare) Well-trodden or well-researched, previously explored.
  • (US, informal) Drunk.
  • * 2005 , Anita Shreve, A Wedding in December , Little, Brown and Company (2005), ISBN 9780316024259, unnumbered page:
    • We all assumed he'd walked back to campus along the beach, singing off-key as he had a habit of doing when he was plowed .
  • * 2005 , Gary Stromberg & Jane Merrill, The Harder They Fall: Celebrities Tell Their Real Life Stories of Addiction and Recovery , Hazelden (2007), ISBN 9781592851560, page 72:
    • Then I got a fifth of Bushmills and went back to the room and got plowed . That was my week of being "on the wagon."
  • * 2013 , Nina Blackwood, Mark Goodman, Alan Hunter, & Martha Quinn (with Gavin Edwards), VJ: The Unplugged Adventures of MTV's First Wave , Atria Books (2013), ISBN 9781451678123, page 202:
    • I sat on a stool while everybody in the crew rotated around me, offering me shots of tequila. The only thing I had eaten all day was a doughnut, and I got totally plowed .
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    • Synonyms

    * (drunk) see also .