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# mown

«mown» in Mova's school dictionary: **Cut short with a mower or a scythe, used about grass and hay** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb form (past participle of mow: mow, mows, mowed, mowing, mown/mowed); adjective (mown)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Cut short with a mower or a scythe, used about grass and hay. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mown/#m1)

2) (adjective) Freshly cut, as in "newly mown lawn". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mown/#m2)

3) (with "down", literary) Killed in large numbers, as in "mown down". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mown/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

Used in everyday life and stories about gardens, parks, sports fields and farms; "the smell of freshly mown grass" is a classic summer image. In history and war stories "mown down" means many people were shot or knocked down.

### examples

- The grass has been mown, so we can play football. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mown/#x1)
- I love the smell of freshly mown grass. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mown/#x2)
- The cricket pitch was neatly mown in stripes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mown/#x3)
- The farmer had mown the hay and left it to dry. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mown/#x4)
- Dad has mown the lawn every Saturday this summer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mown/#x5)
- The newly mown field was full of birds looking for insects. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mown/#x6)
- In the battle, soldiers were mown down by machine guns. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mown/#x7)
- Just make me ten scythes, one for every man, for I want the grass mown in one of my meadows to-morrow.” [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mown/#x8)

### note

Past tense is "mowed" (He mowed the lawn). Past participle can be "mown" or "mowed" (has mown / has mowed). Homophone trap: "moan" (to complain) sounds the same as "mown".

### In the corpora

- [May he come down like rain upon the mown grass, as showers that water the earth.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1202/)
- [When the hay is mown, and the tender grass showeth itself, and the herbs of the mountains are gathered in;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.802/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «mown» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mown/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.