"plough up" meaning in English

See plough up in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

Forms: ploughs up [present, singular, third-person], ploughing up [participle, present], ploughed up [participle, past], ploughed up [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} plough up (third-person singular simple present ploughs up, present participle ploughing up, simple past and past participle ploughed up)
  1. (British spelling) Alternative spelling of plow up Tags: UK, alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: plow up
    Sense id: en-plough_up-en-verb-vWdSYW87 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English phrasal verbs with particle (up)

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for plough up meaning in English (1.4kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "ploughs up",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ploughing up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ploughed up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ploughed up",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "plough up (third-person singular simple present ploughs up, present participle ploughing up, simple past and past participle ploughed up)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "plow up"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English phrasal verbs with particle (up)",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1945 July and August, “Notes and News: The Penrhyn Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 238",
          "text": "Here the route disappeared for about 200 yd. across a ploughed-up field, where we found what we thought to be one of the original slate sleepers now being used as part of a fence; […].",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative spelling of plow up"
      ],
      "id": "en-plough_up-en-verb-vWdSYW87",
      "links": [
        [
          "plow up",
          "plow up#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(British spelling) Alternative spelling of plow up"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "UK",
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "plough up"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "ploughs up",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ploughing up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ploughed up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ploughed up",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "plough up (third-person singular simple present ploughs up, present participle ploughing up, simple past and past participle ploughed up)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "plow up"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "British English forms",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English phrasal verbs",
        "English phrasal verbs with particle (up)",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1945 July and August, “Notes and News: The Penrhyn Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 238",
          "text": "Here the route disappeared for about 200 yd. across a ploughed-up field, where we found what we thought to be one of the original slate sleepers now being used as part of a fence; […].",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative spelling of plow up"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "plow up",
          "plow up#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(British spelling) Alternative spelling of plow up"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "UK",
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "plough up"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-18 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (1d5a7d1 and 304864d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.