unplowed
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6.2
- adjective
- /ʌnˈplaʊd/
- US
:
sin arar
- We turned onto an unplowed lane that dropped into the tamarack and pine.
- an unplowed road
- an unplowed street
- an unplowed field
Examples
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The turnoff to my parents' road was unplowed, as usual.
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And a one-horsepower sleigh doesn't go so fast through unplowed snow.
Fiction book (1997) -
Cars and trucks are backed up on the unplowed road.
Fiction book (1997) -
Cutting through on a back road to save time, C.R. reached an unplowed road.
Fiction book (1999) -
The little land we'd held on to went unplowed, pushing up the only crops.
Fiction book (1995) -
The word now was Texas, another state, and the location in it was to be Bandera County, where the land would be cheap, unplowed, and rich.
Fiction book (2002) -
We let the horses amble across an unplowed field, one that had been fallow for a while, so the rows had almost been smoothed away.
Fiction book (1996) -
In boroughs other than Manhattan, streets went unplowed for two days, ambulances could not reach residents, and heating fuel couldn't be delivered.
Blog text (9) -
Emergency vehicles are having trouble getting to the scene on the unplowed roads.
Synonyms
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5.7
Left unplanted for a season so the soil can recover
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5.7
Land left in its natural state and not farmed
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6.6
Land not plowed or used for growing crops
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5.1
Land that is not prepared for growing crops
Land that people do not use for growing crops
Land people do not use for growing crops or keeping animals
Antonyms
How Ploughed
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Unplowed is made of un- meaning 'not' and plowed, from plow meaning 'to turn over the soil', so unplowed describes land that has not been turned by a plow and stays rough or wild.