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How to pronounce ploughing in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms plowing
Type of tilling
Derivation plough

Examples of ploughing

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Video showed military vehicles ploughing through crowds of people demonstrating.
From the guardian.co.uk
We know what is covering the seagrass and ploughing it up as well as burying it.
From the dailymercury.com.au
You see zebu across the island pulling carts, ploughing fields and hauling wood.
From the travel.uk.msn.com
Armed with these data, the authors could start ploughing through voting records.
From the economist.com
The plane was on a training exercise when it crashed, ploughing into two houses.
From the metro.co.uk
The BBC's new documentary, The Virtual Revolution, is ploughing a few new paths.
From the eu.techcrunch.com
Another important period for the agricultural calendar is that of the ploughing.
From the en.wikipedia.org
In part, this was achieved by ploughing all the profits back into the business.
From the telegraph.co.uk
That's why they keep ploughing research into yet more variants of sitka spruce.
From the independent.co.uk
More examples
  • A farm tool having one or more heavy blades to break the soil and cut a furrow prior to sowing
  • To break and turn over earth especially with a plow; "Farmer Jones plowed his east field last week"; "turn the earth in the Spring"
  • Cover: act on verbally or in some form of artistic expression; "This book deals with incest"; "The course covered all of Western Civilization"; "The new book treats the history of China"
  • Move in a way resembling that of a plow cutting into or going through the soil; "The ship plowed through the water"
  • (plowed) (of farmland) broken and turned over with a plow; "plowed fields"
  • (plowing) tilling the land with a plow; "he hired someone to do the plowing for him"
  • The plough (American spelling: plow; both) is a tool used in farming for initial cultivation of soil in preparation for sowing seed or planting. It has been a basic instrument for most of recorded history, and represents one of the major advances in agriculture. ...
  • Alternative spelling of plough; Alternative spelling of plough
  • (plowing) Alternative form of ploughing; : riding with neither foot leading, with the stick perpendicular to the fall line; not goofy nor regular; ploughing