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Synonyms for plough

  • verb
  • noun
  • British English

Most common

pound ravage groove chamfer drive

Synonyms by meaning

Verb

1. Pound — to sexually penetrate, typically in a vigorous manner

pound, ravage, get up in slang

2. Rut — to furrow; to make furrows, grooves, or ridges in

groove, chamfer, rut rare

3. Pluck — to fail (a student)

pluck, spin, flunk US

Noun

Definitions

  1. v. 1

    To furrow; to make furrows, grooves, or ridges in.

  2. v. 2

    To fail (a student).

  3. v. 3

    To sexually penetrate, typically in a vigorous manner.

    I love just getting ploughed face down on my bed.

  4. n. 1

    A device pulled through the ground in order to break it open into furrows for planting.

    The horse-drawn plough had a tremendous impact on agriculture.

Forms

Plural
ploughs → run-throughs, stitches, sulls, carucates…
Past participle
ploughed
e.g. ploughed → pounded, ravaged, grooved, chamfered…

Example sentences

  • pound An ounce of practice is worth a pound of precept.
  • groove We'll get back in the groove of things before long.
  • drive It took me five hours to drive from here to Tokyo.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
ploughfalling
poundfalling
ravagerising
groovefalling
chamfersteady
driverising

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

3 letters
rut1
4 letters
turn1, spin1, sull
5 letters
drive1, pound1, pluck1, flunk1
6 letters
groove1, stitch1, ravage2
7 letters
chamfer
8 letters
carucate

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (ravage2 = 2 syllables).

In other languages

Français
labourer
Italiano
arare
Español
labrar
Deutsch
beackern