What does ploughed mean?
Word: Ploughed
Part of Speech: Verb
Meaning: Ploughed means turned over and broke up the soil of a field with a plough.
Synonyms: furrowed, dug
How do you spell ploughed?
Syllables: ploughed
Tricky part: The ow sound is written ough, and the gh is silent. Students often drop the u or the h.
Watch out for: plouged, ploghed, ploughd
Memory tip: Plough has the same ough as bough, and both rhyme with cow.
Ploughed in a sentence
Example 1: The farmer ploughed his field with two bullocks before the first rain.
Example 2: The truck ploughed through the muddy road after the flood.
Example 3: Grandfather ploughed the same land for nearly forty years.
Fun Fact
In Britain, seven bright stars of the Great Bear are called the Plough. In India the same group is known as the Saptarishi, after seven sages.
Practise the CREST Way
Word Cookie
Find the extra letter in the word:
ploughted
a) h
b) g
c) t
d) u
Show answer
c) t. Nothing comes between the gh and the ed, even though bought and thought have a t.
Word Connection
Choose the synonym of the word ploughed as it is used in the sentence:
Before the monsoon arrived, the villagers ploughed every field beside the canal.
a) tilled
b) watered
c) harvested
d) fenced
Show answer
a) tilled. To till land is to turn the soil over, which is what ploughing does.
Spell-o-Spell
Three of these words are spelt correctly and one is misspelt. Choose the meaning of the misspelt word:
1. ploughed 2. weeded 3. irigated 4. harvested
a) turned over the soil with a plough
b) pulled out unwanted plants
c) supplied land with water through channels or pipes
d) gathered in a ripe crop
Show answer
c) supplied land with water through channels or pipes. Irrigated is the only farm word here with a slip: it needs a double r.
Mingle-Mangle
Unjumble the letters in the sentence to form a meaningful word:
The tractor heogdplu the stony field in a single morning.
a) ploughed
b) plunged
c) laughed
d) coughed
Show answer
a) ploughed. Laughed and coughed have no p, and plunged has no h, so the eight letters make ploughed.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. The ship ploughed through the waves. Here ploughed means ____.
a) turned back slowly
b) stopped completely
c) moved forward with force
d) sank to the bottom
Show answer
c) moved forward with force
2. A farmer who has just ploughed a field is getting ready to ____.
a) store the hay
b) harvest the crop
c) sell the grain
d) sow the seeds
Show answer
d) sow the seeds
