sow
sow is a 3-letter English word with 14 senses as intransitive verb, noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To sew. See Sew. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 6 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- intransitive verb. To sew. See Sew.
- noun. The female of swine, or of the hog kind.
- noun. A sow bug.
- noun. A channel or runner which receives the rows of molds in the pig bed.
- noun. The bar of metal which remains in such a runner.
- noun. A mass of solidified metal in a furnace hearth; a salamander.
- noun. A kind of covered shed, formerly used by besiegers in filling up and passing the ditch of a besieged place, sapping and mining the wall, or the like.
- transitive verb. To scatter, as seed, upon the earth; to plant by strewing; as, to sow wheat. Also used figuratively: To spread abroad; to propagate.
- transitive verb. To scatter seed upon, in, or over; to supply or stock, as land, with seeds. Also used figuratively: To scatter over; to besprinkle.
- intransitive verb. To scatter seed for growth and the production of a crop; -- literally or figuratively.
- noun. an adult female hog
- verb. introduce into an environment
"sow suspicion or beliefs"
- verb. place (seeds) in or on the ground for future growth
"She sowed sunflower seeds"
- verb. place seeds in or on (the ground)
"sow the ground with sunflower seeds"
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Common word forms
sows, sowed, sower, sowing, sowable
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