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1
to cover by or as if by scattering something over or on
- sow the fields with maize in early spring, and the crop should be ready by late summer
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3
to set permanently in the consciousness or mind-set
- a malicious neighbor who sowed within him nagging suspicions about his wife
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The first known use of sow was before the 12th century
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