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Plowed vs Glowed - What's the difference?

plowed | glowed |

As verbs the difference between plowed and glowed

is that plowed is past tense of plow while glowed is past tense of glow.

As an adjective plowed

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

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 .
  • *

    • Synonyms

    * (drunk) see also .

    glowed

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (glow)

    • Anagrams

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    glow

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To give off light from heat or to emit light as if heated.
  • To radiate some emotional quality like light.
  • * Dryden
    • With pride it mounts, and with revenge it glows .
  • * Alexander Pope
    • Burns with one love, with one resentment glows .
  • To gaze especially passionately at something.
  • To radiate thermal heat.
  • To shine brightly and steadily.
  • * , chapter=5
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=Here, in the transept and choir, where the service was being held, one was conscious every moment of an increasing brightness; colours glowing vividly beneath the circular chandeliers, and the rows of small lights on the choristers' desks flashed and sparkled in front of the boys' faces, deep linen collars, and red neckbands.}}
  • To make hot; to flush.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Fans, whose wind did seem / To glow the delicate cheeks which they did cool.
  • To feel hot; to have a burning sensation, as of the skin, from friction, exercise, etc.; to burn.
  • * Addison
    • Did not his temples glow / In the same sultry winds and scorching heats?
  • * John Gay
    • The cord slides swiftly through his glowing hands.

    Noun

    (-)
  • The state of a glowing object.
  • * 1994 , (Stephen Fry), (The Hippopotamus) Chapter 2
    • The door of the twins' room opposite was open; a twenty-watt night-light threw a weak yellow glow into the passageway. David could hear the twins breathing in time with each other.
  • The condition of being passionate or having warm feelings.
  • The brilliance or warmth of color in an environment or on a person (especially one's face).
    • He had a bright red glow on his face.

    Anagrams

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