ploughed
Definition
Adjective 1. (of land or a field) Describing land that has been broken and turned over with a plough (a farm implement) to prepare it for sowing seeds. * This is the primary and most common meaning. It describes the physical state of soil after the agricultural process of ploughing.
Usage
The word "ploughed" is used almost exclusively to describe agricultural land. It is the past participle of the verb "to plough," used adjectivally. It indicates a completed action that has resulted in a specific, visible condition of the soil.
Examples
- Adjective:
- The farmer surveyed his ploughed fields, ready for planting.
- After the heavy rain, the ploughed earth turned to mud.
- The contrast between the ploughed land and the untouched meadow was stark.
Advanced Usage
- Metaphorical Use: While less common, "ploughed" can be used metaphorically to describe something that has been thoroughly worked over, disrupted, or furrowed, similar to a ploughed field.
- His brow was ploughed with deep lines of worry. (Meaning: deeply furrowed or lined.)
- The investigative report ploughed through the company's finances. (Here, "ploughed" is the past tense verb, meaning to go through something thoroughly and forcefully.)
Variants and Related Words
- Plow (verb, US spelling): The American English spelling of "plough." The adjective form is "plowed."
- The fields were plowed in the autumn.
- Plough (verb, chiefly UK spelling): The primary verb meaning to break and turn over soil with a plough.
- Ploughing (noun): The action or process of breaking up soil with a plough.
- Unploughed (adj.): Land that has not been ploughed.
Synonyms
- Tilled: (Adjective) Prepared and cultivated for raising crops, often synonymous with ploughed.
- Cultivated: (Adjective) (Of land) prepared and used for growing crops.
- Furrowed: (Adjective) Having long, narrow trenches made by a plough. This focuses more on the visible lines left by the plough.
Antonyms
- Unploughed
- Uncultivated
- Fallow: (Adjective) (Of farmland) ploughed and harrowed but left unsown for a period to restore its fertility. While it may be ploughed, "fallow" describes the intentional resting state, not the act of ploughing itself.
- Untilled
Adjective
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(of farmland) broken and turned over with a plow
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