PLOWING Synonyms: 94 Similar and Opposite Words

plowing

verb

present participle of plow

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

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as in laboring

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

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Recent Examples of plowing Michigan spent most of this season – and all of the NCAA tournament – absolutely plowing through their opponents. —

Kyle Feldscher, CNN Money, 7 Apr. 2026 The conversation appears to be about plowing resources for the city's airport. —

Kristina Rex, CBS News, 3 Apr. 2026 After Anthropic accidentally leaked the source code to its blockbuster Claude chatbot, netizens swiftly pounced to start plowing through its more than 512,000 lines of code — and have uncovered numerous curiosities sprinkled throughout. —

Frank Landymore, Futurism, 1 Apr. 2026 The spacecraft is expected to take a steeper angle on its final descent, plowing through the atmosphere faster to minimize the time the heat shield is exposed to the most extreme temperatures. —

Denise Chow, NBC news, 28 Mar. 2026 Aside from billionaire hedge fund founder and environmental activist Tom Steyer, who registered at 10% support after plowing tens of millions of dollars into his campaign, no other Democrat had won support from more than 5% of likely voters, the poll showed. —

Seema Mehta, Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar. 2026 While plowing through waist-deep powder in Tahoe, California, two skiers came across a third buried below the surface. —

Madison Dapcevich, Outside, 26 Feb. 2026 Now imagine a 6-3, 204-pound Spellacy plowing toward you with a top-15 speed. —

Kalen Lumpkins, Chicago Tribune, 25 Feb. 2026 Whitman Littlefield Rhode Island is still digging out, plowing streets and recovering from a record-setting blizzard that struck the state Monday, Feb 23. —

Eryn Dion, The Providence Journal, 24 Feb. 2026

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The wood jambs supporting your front and back entryways can quickly get coated with pollen during springtime, and mowing and raking the lawn kicks up dust and dirt that settles along the frame.

— Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 15 Mar. 2026
Matt McLain added muscle, is now raking On the one hand, McLain adding a dozen pounds of muscle in the offseason seems like an unambiguously positive development.

— Andy Behrens, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2026