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To plant seeds.

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Used as a verb, listen here, it means: To plant seeds. Used as a noun, listen here, it means: A female pig.

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Usage examples (36)
  • Good resolutions are a pleasant crop to sow.
  • sow the ground with sunflower seeds
  • Or at least watch more television, cause reap what you sow is about as common as turn the other cheek.
  • If the sow is a liberal milker, nursing pigs may be affected.
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  • Sow, a female pig, is pronounced as rhyming with cow. Sow, as in planting of seeds, has a long o sound.
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