| Front | furrow |
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| Back | fur•row noun, verb BrE /ˈfʌrəʊ/ NAmE /ˈfɜːroʊ/ noun word origin example bank 1 a long narrow cut in the ground, especially one made by a plough for planting seeds in dark ploughed earth, with white chalk in the furrows Truck wheels had dug furrows in the track. See picture 2 a deep line in the skin of the face Suddenly he looked tired and there were deep furrows in his brow. see plough a lonely, your own, etc. furrow at plough v. verb verb forms word origin 1 [transitive] ~ sth to make a furrow in the earth furrowed fields 2 [intransitive, transitive] ~ (sth) (formal) if your brows or eyebrowsfurrow or are furrowed, you pull them together, usually because you are worried, and so produce lines on your face |
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