| 单词 | furrowed |
| 释义 | furrowed (once / 3197 pages) adj Something that's furrowed has long grooves or indentations in its surface. A newly-planted corn field is furrowed, lined with concave rows. If you are worried, your brow might look furrowed as well. The sea's surface appears furrowed sometimes, with indentations marking it, and earth that's been prepared for planting neat lines of tulips is also furrowed. The most commonly furrowed thing, however, is a person's forehead or brow: "His furrowed brow stopped me from interrupting him as he read." To furrow is to plow or mark with grooves, also called furrows. The Old English root is furh, "trench in the earth made by a plow." WORD FAMILYfurrowed: unfurrowed+/furrow: furrowed, furrowing, furrows USAGE EXAMPLESGrowing on a hillside in a sunlit glade, the pine is nearly 200 feet tall, 7 feet across at the base, its bark richly furrowed. Los Angeles Times(Dec 14, 2016) Massoud leaning forward, one eyebrow cocked, his face furrowed in concentration, as though he was respectfully listening to someone. Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns(2007) Lonergan’s brow was furrowed, and he was speaking, as he often does, in a low, growling mumble. The New Yorker(Oct 31, 2016) adj having long narrow shallow depressions (as grooves or wrinkles) in the surface furrowed fields his furrowed face lit by a warming smile Syn|Ant rugged canaliculate having thin parallel channels corrugatedshaped into alternating parallel grooves and ridges rutted, ruttyfull of ruts unfurrowed not marked with shallow depressions or furrows |
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