Synonyms of tilled

tilled

verb

past tense of till

as in cultivated

to work by plowing, sowing, and raising crops on

farmers tilling the soil from sunup to sunset

Synonyms & Similar Words

• cultivated
• planted
• farmed
• harvested
• tended
• harrowed
• cropped
• hoed
• reaped
• sharecropped

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of tilled

Ali’s father tilled tiny ancestral fields using an irrigation system developed during the Roman empire. — Literary Hub, 27 Aug. 2026

Creative soil has to be tilled every once in a while. — Peter Bogdanovich, IndieWire, 13 May 2026

Red clover can make a drought- and shade-tolerant lawn alternative, but it is more often grown as an annual winter cover crop and then tilled into the soil as green manure. — Hallie Milstein, Southern Living, 13 May 2026

Unlike parks or residential lawns, cemeteries are rarely dug up, tilled or redeveloped — which means the soil remains stable year after year. — Ryan Brennan, Charlotte Observer, 23 Apr. 2026

Solid manure from feedlots, poultry houses or composting dairy barns is spread and tilled under. — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 15 Mar. 2026

These tools – still carrying the soil from which they were tilled – represent the work of the immigrant farmworkers of all backgrounds who helped build California’s agriculture industry, which continues to feed the nation today. — Sam Vong, The Conversation, 18 Dec. 2025

The wheat fields themselves told their own story—deep brown and newly tilled in autumn, then green in spring, golden in summer. — Hannah Howard, Travel + Leisure, 22 Nov. 2025

The rest was tilled into the ground. — Jessica Winter, New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2025