SOWED Synonyms: 58 Similar and Opposite Words

sowed

verb

past tense of sow

as in sprayed

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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as in planted

to put or set into the ground to grow first sow the seeds in potting soil

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as in bred

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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Recent Examples of sowed But Cepeda and Petro on Sunday night sowed doubt in the result and claimed — so far without evidence — that hundreds of thousands of votes were manipulated and that foreign actors interfered with the result. —

Megan Janetsky, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2026 Cepeda, too, sowed doubt about the results, saying that votes were miscounted and that there were discrepancies. —

Raquel Coronell Uribe, NBC news, 1 June 2026 But the past few weeks have showcased the bigger fruits being sowed under Vidosic and the club’s backing of him. —

Megan Feringa, New York Times, 11 May 2026 But thanks in part to the grievance groundwork DeSantis has sowed, the 31-year-old’s divisive message is starting to earn him national attention. —

Scott Maxwell, Sun Sentinel, 9 May 2026 So Vogt pulled all the showy purple spikes and sowed assorted prairie plants instead. —

Teresa Woodard, Midwest Living, 3 May 2026 Through it all, Chavez - who sowed the seed of so much pain - has remained alive on Death Row, courtesy of Florida taxpayers. —

Amy Driscoll, Miami Herald, 3 May 2026 Additionally, the community where measles is spreading has been the home of a sect of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, a group that had a charismatic leader named Warren Jeffs who sowed distrust in vaccines. —

Brenda Goodman, CNN Money, 24 Apr. 2026 The conflicting messaging telling Americans to leave without means of evacuation sowed mass confusion. —

Callie Carmichael, USA Today, 25 Mar. 2026

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The approach treats fragrance as a design element on par with lighting or color, rather than an afterthought sprayed on at the end.

— Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Miami Herald, 9 June 2026
On Friday, a third-party employee working at the facility was hospitalized after drilling into a tank that pressurized and sprayed sulfuric acid onto the worker, The Charlotte Observer’s news partner WSOC reported.

— Caitlin McGlade, Charlotte Observer, 8 June 2026