PLOW Synonyms: 94 Similar and Opposite Words

plow

verb

as in to rake

to cut into and turn over the sod of (a piece of land) using a bladed implement we'll have to get out there and plow and plant both fields before it rains

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as in to labor

to devote serious and sustained effort plowed determinedly through the weighty tome

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Recent Examples of plow During a press conference Tuesday, Chitwood played surveillance video showing the impact and the truck plowing through the tiny structure and then continuing out across the beach and in the shallow waves the Atlantic before it got stuck. —

Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 3 June 2026 The community is in shock after a driver plowed his car into some businesses in the Castro District early Sunday morning. —

Sooji Nam, CBS News, 1 June 2026 Softbank has plowed more than $30 billion into OpenAI, with its investment gains in the company totaling $45 billion in the year ended March. —

Azhar Sukri, CNBC, 31 May 2026 When on a ladder, use a four-prong garden tool in a plowing motion to push leaves out of gutters. —

Emerson Latham, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for plow

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Destructive winds in Oklahoma Farther west, a nasty line of thunderstorms from the same system raked through western and central Oklahoma after midnight CT Monday morning.

— Briana Waxman, CNN Money, 22 June 2026
They might well also be frustrated that Messi stayed on the pitch after his left boot raked the back of Aissa Mandi’s right leg at 1-0.

— Jay Harris, New York Times, 17 June 2026