furrowed

past tense of furrow
1
as in plowed
to cut into and turn over the sod of (a piece of land) using a bladed implement we had to furrow the field before we could plant the wheat

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as in wrinkled
to develop creases or folds his brow furrowed in concentration as he tried to figure out the math problem

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Recent Examples of furrowed With his brow perennially furrowed and hair slicked with sweat, Riley has the exact look and bearing of a suavely addled wrong-man figure from British thrillers of yore — and thus makes a suitably bemused proxy for the viewers in this wasteland of mounting chaos and absurdity. Guy Lodge, Variety, 19 Aug. 2025
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  • Farmers plowed up lead and iron shrapnel and even whole hand grenades by the pallet every harvest season.
    Michael Jerome Plunkett September 5, Literary Hub, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Investors have plowed close to $350 million in the space with a new crop of startups like Omi and Limitless releasing wearables, while Amazon just snapped up Bee, a tiny note-taking device startup, for an undisclosed amount.
    Rashi Shrivastava, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
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  • Every plot point is wrinkled or changed in some fundamental way.
    Joe Lynch, Billboard, 18 Oct. 2024
  • The vinyl decals, featuring salmon crying to get beyond the first of the dams, were wrinkled, the banner itself battle-scarred in places.
    Debra Utacia Krol, The Arizona Republic, 12 Oct. 2024

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“Furrowed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/furrowed. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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