to trough
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7.9
- verb
- /trɔf/
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formar canales
- " I think we've troughed out and are on the upswing.
Examples
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i say we go to his "troughed off" bar, drop off the bag like Ruiz said... and get on a plane and go home.
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He must have that shit troughed off.
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what do you mean "troughed off?
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Gold troughed on October 23, 2008, and has rallied an impressive 151.9 percent since then.
Blog text (20) -
We are troughed and slopped and corralled and chuted.
Blog text (15) -
The water surged and troughed, straight-walled drops to the spumy, roiling foam.
Fiction book (1999) -
The index of homebuilder stocks troughed about a month later, on November 21, 2008, and has since returned a whopping 177.9 percent (of course, the drivers had more to do with the general rise in stocks as opposed to an improvement in housing).
Blog text (20) -
And so on and on, until he couldn't bear it and asked his son to help him carry the chest, half emptied, down the narrow attic stairs whose bare wooden treads had been troughed by generations of use, and then down the slightly broader stairs carpeted decades ago, and out the back door to the van.
Fiction book (1992) -
The economy has troughed, indicating that we may start to see growth soon.
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As the storm passed, the waves troughed dramatically before rushing back to shore.
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Etymology
Trough as a verb comes from the noun trough, from the idea of a 'hollow'. To 'trough' is to form a long, narrow hollow or channel, which is why we say a road or sheet metal has 'troughed' when it sinks or bends.