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# unploughed

«unploughed» in Mova's school dictionary: **Unploughed land has not been dug up and turned over with…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (unploughed); US spelling unplowed

### meaning for a pupil

1) Unploughed land has not been dug up and turned over with a plough, so it is still grass, stubble or wild ground. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unploughed/#m1)

2) Unploughed roads or paths have not had the snow cleared by a snowplough. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unploughed/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In geography and farming lessons: unploughed fields, meadows and prairies keep soil and wildlife safe. In winter life in Canada and the northern USA: unploughed (unplowed) roads after a snowstorm. In history: settlers turning unploughed prairie into farms.

### examples

- The unploughed meadow was full of wild flowers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unploughed/#x1)
- Rabbits live at the edge of the unploughed field. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unploughed/#x2)
- After the blizzard, our street was still unploughed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unploughed/#x3)
- Settlers ploughed up miles of unploughed prairie. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unploughed/#x4)
- Leaving strips unploughed helps bees and birds. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unploughed/#x5)
- The bus could not drive up the unploughed hill. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unploughed/#x6)

### note

UK, Ireland, Australia, NZ spell «plough»; the US spells «plow». The «-ough» sounds like «ow» in «cow».

### Trees and pragmatics

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