ploughed

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adjective

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

UncommonScrabble 15

Meanings

verb

alternative plowed

  1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of plough
adjectiveploughed (comparative more ploughed, superlative most ploughed)

comparative more ploughed · superlative most ploughed · alternative plowed

  1. Turned over with the blade of a plough to create furrows (usually for planting crops).
  2. figurativelyrareWell-trodden or well-researched, previously explored.
  3. slangDrunk.

    they stacked the glass up + right up to the level that you would normally have if you had ice in your drink anyway + and consequently I got ploughed

    1983, Gillian Brown, George Yule, Discourse Analysis
    1 more example

    "I said are you allowed to drink? You know, beer. Whatever. Isn't it against your religion?" […] There were a few kids at school who said they were Mormon, but that didn't stop 'em from getting ploughed, and other kids who went to church but smoke and drank and cussed and screwed.

    2020, Tom Leveen, Party

Synonyms & antonyms

adjective(of farmland) broken and turned over with a plow

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Rhymes & wordplay

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