plough through

Synonyms for plough through

verb work slowly and under duress

Antonyms for plough through

Word Origin & History

late Old English plog, ploh "plow; plowland" (a measure of land equal to what a yoke of oxen could plow in a day), possibly from a Scandinavian source (cf. Old Norse plogr "plow," Swedish and Danish plog), from Proto-Germanic *plogo- (cf. Old Saxon plog, Old Frisian ploch "plow," Middle Low German ploch, Middle Dutch ploech, Dutch ploeg, Old High German pfluog, German Pflug), a late word in Germanic, of uncertain origin. Old Church Slavonic plugu, Lithuanian plugas "plow" are Germanic loan-words, as probably is Latin plovus, plovum "plow," a word said by Pliny to be of Rhaetian origin.

Replaced Old English sulh, cognate with Latin sulcus "furrow." As a name for the star pattern also known as the Big Dipper or Charles's Wain, it is attested by early 15c., perhaps early 14c. The three "handle" stars (in the Dipper configuration) generally are seen as the team of oxen pulling the plow, though sometimes they are the handle.

Example Sentences for plough through

But one didn't have to plough through the usual commonplaces.

"I'll be level with you yet," ran like a plough through the soil of his thoughts.

The Gods had driven their plough through it, and it lay flat, and proud Atlantis stood as defenceless as the open country.

Afterwards, I run a plough through the rows, and cover them up completely.

We gasped in dismay, Wilma and I, as time after time we saw it plough through sections where we knew camps or plants were located.

The ordinary city official hasn't the time to plough through a mass of pamphlets looking for what he wants.

That means four hundred kilowatts on the aerial, and I guess that can plough through the worst static that ever happened.

You must plough through those calls, Cheveril, they are a sacred rite for the new-comer.

"I see," said Cleo, trying to plough through the heavy sand without burying the soaking wet slippers.

Any one who saw that hood on my head would swear a thousand oaths that I never worked for you, or drove a plough through a furrow.

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