plough up

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If someone ploughs up an area of land, they plough it, usually in order to turn it into land used for growing crops. It would pay farmers to plough up the scrub and plant wheat
plough up

    Hyphenation

    Plough up

    Turkish pronunciation

    plau ʌp

    Pronunciation

    /ˈplou ˈəp/ /ˈplaʊ ˈʌp/

    Etymology

    (noun.) 12th century. Middle English, from Old English plOh hide of land; akin to Old High German pfluog plow.
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