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• v  move in a way resembling that of a plow cutting into or going through the soil
• v  to break and turn over earth especially with a plow
• a  (of farmland) broken and turned over with a plow

• Rather than standing aside meekly while their hashish was ploughed up as in the past, the farmers this year were determined to protect their lucrative crops.
• A suicide car bomber ploughed today into a Kurdish party office in Kirkuk, triggering a blast that killed at least 71 people and wounding 180 others.
• Tommies who ploughed through Flanders' mud to Ypres, doughboys who marched through the black night into the Argonne.

• plow
• plough
• turn
• plowed

• unplowed

News & Articles

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• Bellevue Hit Hard by Storms
  BELLEVUE, OH — Residents of the small city of Bellevue believe a tornado ploughed through their town late Wednesday afternoon....
  July 10, 2013 - FOX 8 Cleveland

Quotes

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• Barack Obama in Malaysia Star
  She wept when Obama spoke about forefathers who "packed up their few worldly possessions and travelled across oceans in search of a new life. For us, they toiled in sweatshops and settled the West; endured the lash of the whip and ploughed the hard...
• Alexander Downer in The Age
  They thought the plane would never stop in the length of the runway,Mr Downer told The 7.30 Report. "It duly didn't. It just ploughed across the end of the runway, across a road, hit a bank and a culvert and went into a paddy field. When...