PLOUGH Synonyms

• the site of an archeological exploration

• an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect

• a small gouge (as in the cover of a book)

• the act of digging

• the act of touching someone suddenly with your finger or elbow

• turn up, loosen, or remove earth

• create by digging

• work hard

• remove, harvest, or recover by digging

• thrust down or into

• remove the inner part or the core of

• poke or thrust abruptly

• get the meaning of something

• workplace consisting of farm buildings and cultivated land as a unit

• be a farmer; work as a farmer

• collect fees or profits

• cultivate by growing, often involving improvements by means of agricultural techniques

• unstratified soil deposited by a glacier; consists of sand and clay and gravel and boulders mixed together

• a treasury for government funds

• a strongbox for holding cash

• work land as by ploughing, harrowing, and manuring, in order to make it ready for cultivation

• activity directed toward making or doing something

• a product produced or accomplished through the effort or activity or agency of a person or thing

• the occupation for which you are paid

• applying the mind to learning and understanding a subject (especially by reading)

• (physics) a manifestation of energy; the transfer of energy from one physical system to another expressed as the product of a force and the distance through which it moves a body in the direction of that force

• a place where work is done

• the total output of a writer or artist (or a substantial part of it)

• exert oneself by doing mental or physical work for a purpose or out of necessity; work

• be employed

• have an effect or outcome; often the one desired or expected

• perform as expected when applied

• shape, form, or improve a material

• give a workout to

• proceed along a path

• operate in a certain place, area, or specialty

• proceed towards a goal or along a path or through an activity

• move in an agitated manner

• cause to happen or to occur as a consequence

• cause to work

• prepare for crops

• behave in a certain way when handled

• have and exert influence or effect

• operate in or through

• cause to operate or function

• provoke or excite

• gratify and charm, usually in order to influence

• make something, usually for a specific function

• move into or onto

• to mix into a homogeneous mass

• use or manipulate to one's advantage

• find the solution to (a problem or question) or understand the meaning of

• cause to undergo fermentation

• go sour or spoil

• arrive at a certain condition through repeated motion

• place into the hands or custody of

• cause to overturn from an upright or normal position

• move by turning over or rotating

• turn up, loosen, or remove earth

• do business worth a certain amount of money

• cause to move around a center so as to show another side of

• turn from an upright or normal position

• turn upside down, or throw so as to reverse

• think about carefully; weigh

• a farm tool having one or more heavy blades to break the soil and cut a furrow prior to sowing

• to break and turn over earth especially with a plow

• act on verbally or in some form of artistic expression

• move in a way resembling that of a plow cutting into or going through the soil

• form by carving

• engrave or cut by chipping away at a surface

• cut to pieces

• two surfaces meeting at an angle different from 90 degrees

• cut a bevel on; shape to a bevel

• cut a furrow into a columns

• a ladle that has a cup with a long handle

• a cluster of seven stars in Ursa Minor; at the end of the dipper's handle is Polaris

• small North American diving duck; males have bushy head plumage

• a group of seven bright stars in the constellation Ursa Major

• small stocky diving bird without webbed feet; frequents fast-flowing streams and feeds along the bottom

• failure to reach a minimum required performance

• fail to get a passing grade

• a long narrow furrow cut either by a natural process (such as erosion) or by a tool (as e.g. a groove in a phonograph record)

• a settled and monotonous routine that is hard to escape

• (anatomy) any furrow or channel on a bodily structure or part

• make a groove in, or provide with a groove

• hollow out in the form of a furrow or groove

• the dressed skin of an animal (especially a large animal)

• body covering of a living animal

• prevent from being seen or discovered

• be or go into hiding; keep out of sight, as for protection and safety

• cover as if with a shroud

• make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing

• arable land that is worked by plowing and sowing and raising crops

• arable land that is worked by plowing and sowing and raising crops

• United States writer who lived in Europe; strongly influenced the development of modern literature (1885-1972)

• 16 ounces avoirdupois

• the basic unit of money in Great Britain and Northern Ireland; equal to 100 pence

• a unit of apothecary weight equal to 12 ounces troy

• the basic unit of money in Syria; equal to 100 piasters

• the basic unit of money in the Sudan; equal to 100 piasters

• the basic unit of money in Lebanon; equal to 100 piasters

• formerly the basic unit of money in Ireland; equal to 100 pence

• the basic unit of money in Egypt; equal to 100 piasters

• the basic unit of money in Cyprus; equal to 100 cents

• a nontechnical unit of force equal to the mass of 1 pound with an acceleration of free fall equal to 32 feet/sec/sec

• a symbol for a unit of currency (especially for the pound sterling in Great Britain)

• a public enclosure for stray or unlicensed dogs

• the act of pounding (delivering repeated heavy blows)

• hit hard with the hand, fist, or some heavy instrument

• strike or drive against with a heavy impact

• move heavily or clumsily

• move rhythmically

• partition off into compartments

• shut up or confine in any enclosure or within any bounds or limits

• place or shut up in a pound

• break down and crush by beating, as with a pestle

• a groove or furrow (especially one in soft earth caused by wheels)

• a settled and monotonous routine that is hard to escape

• applies to nonhuman mammals: a state or period of heightened sexual arousal and activity

• be in a state of sexual excitement; of male mammals

• hollow out in the form of a furrow or groove

• a circular segment of a curve

• the act of changing or reversing the direction of the course

• (game) the activity of doing something in an agreed succession

• an unforeseen development

• a movement in a new direction

• the act of turning away or in the opposite direction

• turning or twisting around (in place)

• a time period for working (after which you will be relieved by someone else)

• (sports) a division of a game during which one team is on the offensive

• a short performance that is part of a longer program

• a favor for someone

• taking a short walk out and back

• to change orientation or direction

• undergo a transformation or a change of position or action

• undergo a change or development

• cause to move around or rotate

• change to the contrary

• pass to the other side of

• pass into a condition gradually, take on a specific property or attribute; become

• let (something) fall or spill from a container

• move around an axis or a center

• cause to move around a center so as to show another side of

• to send or let go

• to break and turn over earth especially with a plow

• shape by rotating on a lathe or cutting device or a wheel

• change color

• twist suddenly so as to sprain

• cause to change or turn into something different;assume new characteristics

• accomplish by rotating

• get by buying and selling

• cause to move along an axis or into a new direction

• channel one's attention, interest, thought, or attention toward or away from something

• cause (an object) to assume a crooked or angular form

• alter the functioning or setting of

• direct at someone

• have recourse to or make an appeal or request for help or information to

• go sour or spoil

• become officially one year older

• any of various kinds of wheeled vehicles drawn by an animal or a tractor

• a group of seven bright stars in the constellation Ursa Major

• van used by police to transport prisoners

• a child's four-wheeled toy cart sometimes used for coasting

• a car that has a long body and rear door with space behind rear seat

• large open farm wagon

• English writer (1925-1994)

• a group of seven bright stars in the constellation Ursa Major