Meaning

Any trench, channel, or groove; often found on wood or metal..

Definitions by Sense

1. Any trench, channel, or groove; often found on wood or metal.
2. (transitive) To cut one or more grooves in (the ground, etc.).
3. (transitive) To wrinkle.
4. (transitive) To pull one's brows or eyebrows together due to concentration, worry, etc.
5. (intransitive) to become furrowed

Example Sentences

Cart wheels can furrow roads.

Morn in the white wake of the morning star / Came furrowing all the orient into gold.

As she pored over the company's bewildering tax documents, she furrowed her brows, wrinkled her nose, and began to frown her befuddlement.

If you were bold enough to ask Antonin Scalia questions, you had to be precise. Otherwise the bushy black brows would furrow, the chin would crumple and the pudgy, puckish body would start to rock, eager to get at you.

Word Forms

• furrows
• furrowing
• furrowed

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Use furrow when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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