MEANING
1. A long, narrow groove or deep line in a surface, including a wrinkle in skin.
2. To form or create long grooves or wrinkles in a surface.
Use it for
describing lines cut into soil; showing a deeply lined forehead; portraying a surface scored by repeated movement; distinguishing a long groove from a small round hollowLinks long surface grooves with visible brow lines, allowing restrained physical description without naming an emotion. Writing functions: Texture and body language.
Words that belong together
- a ploughed furrow
- deep furrows
- furrows in a forehead
On the page
Water stood in the furrows between the newly planted rows.
A deep furrow divided his brow even when his face was otherwise still.
She furrowed her brow at the unfamiliar signature.
Years of runoff had furrowed the soft earth below the broken pipe.
Word forms
- Base
- furrow
- Past tense
- furrowed
- Past participle
- furrowed
- Present participle
- furrowing
Usage notes
Noun: furrow/furrows. Verb: furrow, furrows, furrowed, furrowed, furrowing; future will furrow. Common body-language pattern: furrow your brow. Register: neutral. Commonness: moderately common (qualitative editorial estimate, informed by dictionaries/corpus).
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