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Slowed vs Plowed - What's the difference?

slowed | plowed |

As verbs the difference between slowed and plowed

is that slowed is past tense of slow while plowed is past tense of plow.

As an adjective plowed is

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

slowed

English

Verb

(head)
  • (slow)

    • Anagrams

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    slow

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Taking a long time to move or go a short distance, or to perform an action; not quick in motion; proceeding at a low speed.
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  • Not happening in a short time; spread over a comparatively long time.
  • * (John Milton)
    • These changes in the heavens, though slow , produced / Like change on sea and land, sidereal blast.
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  • Of reduced intellectual capacity; not quick to comprehend.
  • Not hasty; not precipitate; lacking in promptness; acting with deliberation.
  • * The Bible, Prov. xiv. 29
    • He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding.
  • (of a clock or the like) Behind]] in time; indicating a time [[early, earlier than the true time.
  • Lacking spirit; deficient in liveliness or briskness.
  • (of a period of time) Not busy; lacking activity.

    • Synonyms

    * See also * (taking a long time to move a short distance) deliberate; moderate * (not happening in a short time) gradual * (of reduced intellectual capacity) dull-witted * (acting with deliberation) dilatory, inactive, tardy, slothful, sluggish * (lacking spirit) boring, dull

    Antonyms

    * (taking a long time to move a short distance) fast, quick, rapid, swift * (of reduced intellectual capacity) prompt, quick * (acting with deliberation) hasty, precipitate, prompt * (lacking spirit) brisk, lively

    Derived terms

    * slow motion, slo-mo * slow-belly * slow burn * slowish * slowly * slow march * slowness * slowpoke

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make (something) run, move, etc. less quickly; to reduce the speed of.
  • To keep from going quickly; to hinder the progress of.
  • To become slow; to slacken in speed; to decelerate.
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    • After about a minute, the creek bed vomited the debris into a gently sloped meadow. Saugstad felt the snow slow and tried to keep her hands in front of her.

    Synonyms

    * (keep from going quickly) delay, hinder, retard * (become slow) decelerate, slacken

    Derived terms

    * slower * slow up * slow down

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Someone who is slow; a sluggard.
  • (music) A slow song.

    • Adverb

    (er)
  • Slowly.
    • That clock is running slow .
  • * Shakespeare
    • Let him have time to mark how slow time goes / In time of sorrow.

    Anagrams

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    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 .