Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Having longitudinal channels, ridges, or grooves; sulcate: as, a furrowed stem.
Wiktionary
- v. Simple past tense and past participle of furrow.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. having long narrow shallow depressions (as grooves or wrinkles) in the surface
Examples
“The uvula (uvula vermis; uvular lobe) forms a considerable portion of the inferior vermis; it is separated on either side from the tonsil by the sulcus valleculæ, at the bottom of which it is connected to the tonsil by a ridge of gray matter, indented on its surface by shallow furrows, and hence called the furrowed band.”
“This reaction comes with a furrowed brow -- my regular clothes and the dog don't quite fit in with a nudge from the judge.”
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“The question produces furrowed brows and shrugs of shoulders.”
“His brow furrowed as if he was concentrating on something.”
“I look at the tatty machines and their glaring advert-riddled interfaces with furrowed brow for a second, then head to the bar, hoping it'll be wifi enabled for customers.”
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“My bright teacher turned to me, nose wrinkled, her perfectly plucked brows furrowed.”
“Sally furrowed her brow and said, “Why do you have to get all wrapped up in labels?””
“Her brow was furrowed and she looked worried, but something else about her was studying the whole situation, and he could see it: her worry and her thought, her intensity in trying to put everything together.”
“The brows are furrowed, and he is gazing off into the distance at . . . something nobody else can see.”
“It seemed from his furrowed brow that he was the one who was slogging hour upon hour in a swimming pool, counting tiles and laps, with arms like lead, heaving for breath and somehow, getting slower!”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘furrowed’.
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Weftage
The many textures of touch.
smooth, warty, velvety, sleek, grainy, shaggy, abrasive, scratchy, bumpy, corded, ribbed, roughish and 95 more...
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beatricks's Words
tremendous, naiad, thrush, samsara, thronging, nascent, broom, aristeia, streak, susurrant, reverberate, resistentialism and 352 more...
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newGRE
mostly from magoosh
imbue, verge on, nonchalant, deliberate, timorous, futile, provisional, dissect, checked, tinged, alluring, visionary and 1046 more...
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pixistix's Words
cumquat, circumlocution, panoply, propinquity, contumely, quietus, fardel, tmesis, tipsy, giddy, trudge, vortex and 211 more...
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stpeter's Words
abase, abasement, abashed, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abhorrent, abide, abject, ablation, abnegation and 3536 more...
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conceptwriter's Words
sloth, jackass, dickhead, technostalgic, futuristic, enigma, impact, addict, nasty, premium, extraordinaire, yearning and 262 more...
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botello360's list
ruminate, steel, bifurcation, arrivederci, portage, tactile, ruminant, rift, anecdotage, diacritic, cud, hull and 399 more...
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Zorba
ectoplasm, incorporeal, balderdash, raucous, trenchant, furrowed, half-baked, riveted, voracious, tassel, lignite, diaphonous and 46 more...
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Words used in Decemberist songs
dirigible, palanquin, ventricle, mariner, bayonet, tamaracks, parapet, chaparral, magistrate, concubines, odalisque, cinnamon and 52 more...
Tweets
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corylusavellana "This furrowed field, this hallowed ground, acre of Weald, of peace unbound,
I dream of living, earth in hand, and plot my plot; to live the land." Dec 23, 2008