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

Tilling or plowing in the summer disturbs the soil's delicate ecosystem and exposes moist soil to rapid water loss. — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 24 June 2026

By plowing a chunk of their earnings into repurchases, the companies reduce the number of shares outstanding, which has the effect of boosting earnings per share and ultimately the stock price. — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 18 June 2026

Other companies are plowing forward where Monarch has failed. — Los Angeles Times, 15 June 2026

The discussion pinballed between other lingering issues with the property tax system upgrade that has been plowing along for more than ten years. — A.d. Quig, Chicago Tribune, 10 June 2026

Instead, countries like Poland are plowing funds into their own defense firms. — Brendan Ruberry, semafor.com, 7 June 2026

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

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

The effects of tilling, the practice of plowing the soil between crop seasons, have large regional differences. — Hanqin Tian, Fortune, 25 May 2026