Synonyms of plowing

plowing

verb

present participle of plow

1

as in raking

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• raking
• cultivating
• furrowing
• tilling
• breaking
• hoeing
• fallowing
• harrowing
• rototilling
• listing

2

as in laboring

to devote serious and sustained effort

plowed determinedly through the weighty tome

Synonyms & Similar Words

• laboring
• struggling
• striving
• working
• trying
• toiling
• grubbing
• endeavoring
• tugging
• slaving
• hustling
• sweating
• humping
• plugging
• digging (away)
• slogging
• plodding
• drudging
• banging away
• pegging (away)
• straining
• travailing
• moiling
• sweating blood
• fagging
• driving
• beavering (away)
• applying (oneself)
• buckling (down)
• attacking
• hammering (away)
• exerting
• wading
• pitching in
• exercising
• scratching
• trudging
• digging in
• essaying
• grinding (out)
• knuckling down
• overworking
• eking out
• scrabbling
• overexerting
• putting out

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• breaking
• slackening
• idling
• easing (up)
• loafing
• lounging
• chilling
• letting up
• shirking
• hanging (around or out)
• resting
• dallying
• bumming
• lazing
• hacking (around)
• relaxing
• slacking (off)
• playing
• goofing (off)
• lolling
• unwinding
• reposing
• hanging
• basking
• goldbricking
• dabbling
• dillydallying
• trifling
• vegging out
• footling
• fooling around
• messing around
• doodling
• puttering (around)
• goofing (around)
• pottering (around)
• hanging about
• monkeying (around)
• fribbling

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of plowing

The House Democrats’ campaign arm is now plowing extra resources into the gerrymandered seat in Tennessee. — Jon Allsop, New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2026

The private sector, which has so far gotten back about $100 billion, is trying to do some of the work itself by plowing the money into price cuts and parceling out refunds. — Eleanor Mueller, semafor.com, 22 Sep. 2026

On one of his first extended bouts of action in the NFL, Coleman displayed the type of physical running Payton loves by plowing through a Jaguars defender. — Sam Jane, Denver Post, 21 Sep. 2026

His visit came after bulldozers started plowing through parts of the park in the far south of Texas, sparking widespread outrage. — ABC News, 28 Aug. 2026

There certainly may be a kernel of truth to Musk’s professed safety concerns, but plowing through bollards that are explitly designed to protect pedestrians from rogue drivers isn’t helping his case. — Frank Landymore, Futurism, 19 Aug. 2026

Those numbers signal that companies are plowing profits back into the business, driving up assets while driving down returns. — Harvard Business Review, 11 Aug. 2026

There were 92 of us that year plowing two miles through choppy waters. — Mark Patinkin, The Providence Journal, 7 Aug. 2026

The ship held almost 1,500 people, most of whom were émigrés who planned to stop over briefly in Liverpool before plowing backward to the cities of their birth. — Claire Carusillo, Harpers Magazine, 4 Aug. 2026