Meaning & use
Plowing
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Turning over the soil of a field, typically before planting, using a plow.
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The farmer spent the morning plowing the north field.
Snowplows were out all night plowing the highways.
A note on using this word
Also used figuratively to mean moving forcefully through something, as in 'plowing through a stack of papers'.
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Another way to use it
2. verb
Moving forward forcefully or persistently through something.
The car went plowing through the fence.
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