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unploughed
adjective
UK(USunplowed)uk /ˌʌnˈplaʊd/ us /ˌʌnˈplaʊd/
Unploughed ground has not been dug to make it ready for planting seeds:
They are creating wildlife habitats along the unploughed edges of fields.
We keep our cattle on unploughed grassland.
An unploughed road has not had the snow removed from it by a snowplough:
We drove a short distance down the unploughed road, and nearly got stuck.
Trains are delayed, and the roads are unploughed.
The farmers enjoy the sight of wildlife returning to unploughed land.
We leave the edges of our fields unploughed, to help bugs and the birds that feed on them.
Fresh snow lay on the unploughed motorways yesterday.
A taxi crawled slowly down the unploughed street.
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