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

Synonyms & Similar Words

Relevance

as in planted

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

as in bred

to set permanently in the consciousness or mind-set a malicious neighbor who sowed within him nagging suspicions about his wife

Synonyms & Similar Words

Example Sentences

Examples are automatically compiled from online sources to show current usage. Read More Opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.

Recent Examples of sowed The conflicting messaging telling Americans to leave without means of evacuation sowed mass confusion. —

Callie Carmichael, USA Today, 25 Mar. 2026 Even as those attacks sowed panic, Israel pressed on with waves of strikes across southern Lebanon and the southern suburbs of the capital. —

Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2026 Yet in the face of these outbreaks, top officials have offered wildly contradictory advice that has sowed further confusion among ordinary Americans. —

Jerome Adams, Fortune, 7 Mar. 2026 Kigali is accused of having funded the M23 militia that has taken over mineral-rich areas of the DRC and sowed instability across the country. —

Jeronimo Gonzalez, semafor.com, 3 Mar. 2026 The remarks have sowed confusion over the past year, as scientists warn there isn’t evidence to back them up. —

Aria Bendix, NBC news, 24 Feb. 2026 Watney ekes out an existence by eating potatoes sowed in Martian soil fertilized by his own feces. —

Big Think, 19 Feb. 2026 With major wins this awards season such as lead actor Rhea Seehorn’s Golden Globe for best performance by a female actor in a dramatic series, Pluribus has sowed ripe ground for discourse and fan theories. —

Kat Chen, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 Jan. 2026 The divergent origins of their respective autocracies sowed the seeds for the kinds of challenges that each country would eventually face. —

Yonatan Morse, The Conversation, 19 Dec. 2025

Recent Examples of Synonyms for sowed

Verb

Shortly after Monarez took office, a gunman driven by distrust in vaccines attacked the CDC’s Atlanta headquarters, firing more than 180 rounds that sprayed multiple buildings and killed DeKalb County Police Officer David Rose.

— Brenda Goodman, CNN Money, 25 Mar. 2026
Homes and cars were set ablaze, Palestinians were pepper-sprayed and at least five people were wounded in the overnight assaults, which took place during the Eid al-Fitr holiday marking the end of Ramadan, the agency said.

— Sam Metz, Los Angeles Times, 23 Mar. 2026