mow

Meaning

Verb

1. To cut down grass or crops.
2. To cut down or slaughter in great numbers.

Noun

1. The act of mowing (a garden, grass, etc.).
2. A shot played with a sweeping or scythe-like motion.

Noun

A scornful grimace; a wry face.

Noun

1. A stack of hay, corn, beans or a barn for the storage of hay, corn, beans.
2. The place in a barn where hay or grain in the sheaf is stowed.

Noun

Alternative form of mew (a seagull)

Synonyms

cut

reap

shear

harvest

hayloft

scythe

clip

mop

pout

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haymow

hew

cut down

trim

cut grass

crop

snip

rick

shave

sythe

pierce

shorten

stack

cut off

sharpen

reduce

rend

resect

retrench

scissor

sever

skin

slice

slit

spay

split

stab

tear

tease

pare down

traverse

break

break asunder

cut to

operate on

slice up

snip off

cut asunder

weed

carve

chop

clear

cross

cut away

cut back

cut out

divide

edit

edit out

fix

grimace

guillotine

haystack

jab

mower

nip off

pare

peel

pinch

prune

pucker

purse

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Pronounced as (IPA)

/məʊ/

Etymology

From Middle English mowen (participle mowen), from Old English māwan (past tense mēow, past participle māwen), from Proto-West Germanic *māan, from Proto-Germanic *mēaną, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂meh₁- (“to mow, reap”).
See also Dutch maaien, German mähen, Danish meje, Swedish meja; also Hittite [script needed] (ḫamešḫa, “spring/early summer”, literally “mowing time”), Latin metō (“I harvest, mow”), Ancient Greek ἀμάω (amáō, “I mow”).