plough
To use a plough on soil to prepare for plantingTo use a plough on soil to prepare for planting.
» The land had never been ploughed.
Das Land war noch nie gepflügt worden.
Это была ни разу не паханая земля.
Meaning
10 senses(transitive)To use a plough on soil to prepare for planting.
I've still got to plough that field.
pflügen
паха́тьpaxátʹ, вспа́хиватьvspáxivatʹ, вспаха́тьvspaxátʹ
ора́тиoráty, зо́рюватиzórjuvaty, зора́тиzoráty
(intransitive)To use a plough.
Some days I have to plough from sunrise to sunset.
pflügen
паха́тьpaxátʹ
To move with force.
Trucks ploughed through the water to ferry flood victims to safety.
(colloquial, transitive)To knock over or run over (someone) without stopping.
My brother ploughed me over.
Three people were ploughed down when he lost control of the truck.
To furrow; to make furrows, grooves, or ridges in.
To run through, as in sailing.
To trim, or shave off the edges of, as a book or paper, with a plough.
To cut a groove in, as in a plank, or the edge of a board; especially, a rectangular groove to receive the end of a shelf or tread, the edge of a panel, a tongue, etc.
(transitive, vulgar)To sexually penetrate, typically in a vigorous manner.
I love just getting ploughed face down on my bed.
ficken
(UK, obsolete, transitive)To fail (a student).
- to break and turn over earth especially with a plow
- move in a way resembling that of a plow cutting into or going through the soil
Examples
30 sentencesThe land had never been ploughed.
ruЭто была ни разу не паханая земля.
deDas Land war noch nie gepflügt worden.
Yoke the oxen to the plough.
ruЗапряги волов в плуг.
deSpann die Ochsen vor den Pflug.
The fields must be ploughed quickly.
This field has never been ploughed.
ruЭто поле никогда не возделывалось.
deDieses Feld wurde noch nie gepflügt.
He exchanged a plough for a sword.
Translations
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Origin
From Middle English plouh, plow, plugh(e), plough(e), plouw, from Old English plōh (“hideFrom Middle English plouh, plow, plugh(e), plough(e), plouw, from Old English plōh (“hide of land, ploughland”) and Old Norse plógr (“plough (the implement)”), both from Proto-Germanic *plōgaz, *plōguz (“plough”). Cognate with Scots pleuch, plou, North Frisian plog, West Frisian ploech, Low German Ploog, Dutch ploeg, Russian плуг (plug), German Pflug, Danish plov, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish plog, Icelandic plógur. Replaced Old English sulh (“plough, furrow”); see sullow.
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Forms
ploughs, ploughing, ploughed, ploughedPhrasal verbs
6 phrasal verbs- plough onTo continue with a task despite it being menial, difficult, or boring
- plough downTo dig up and incorporate a legume crop into the soil by ploughing it over when it is fully grown.
- plough overTo dig through and loosen soil using a plough.
- plough intoTo crash into something.
- plough throughTo persevere with an activity of consuming something, both literally and figuratively.
- plough aheadCommonwealth English standard spelling of plow ahead.
Synonyms
106 synonymsWord family
17 related wordsLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle