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Furrowed   /fˈəroʊd/   Listen
Furrowed

adjective
1.
Having long narrow shallow depressions (as grooves or wrinkles) in the surface.  Synonym: rugged.  "His furrowed face lit by a warming smile"



Furrow

verb
(past & past part. furrowed; pres. part. furrowing)
1.
Hollow out in the form of a furrow or groove.  Synonyms: groove, rut.
2.
Make wrinkled or creased.  Synonyms: crease, wrinkle.
3.
Cut a furrow into a columns.  Synonyms: chamfer, chase.






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"Furrowed" Quotes from Famous Books



... waters shifting, By furrowed glade and dell, To feverish men thy calm, sweet face uplifting, ...
— The Home Book of Verse, Vol. 3 (of 4) • Various

... god, had been merely that of a lowering, overcast sky, that might portend anything, but probably meant no more than a sharp thunder- squall, I now awakened to the consciousness that the firmament above consisted of a vast curtain of frowning, murky, black-grey cloud, streaked or furrowed in a very remarkable manner from about east-south- east to west-nor'-west, the lower edges of the clouds presenting a curious frayed appearance, while the clouds themselves glowed here and there with patches of lurid, fiery red, as though each bore within its bosom ...
— A Pirate of the Caribbees • Harry Collingwood

... scores of well-dressed and evidently well-cared-for women of middle age, whose countenances were furrowed, drawn, pinched, sallow, and worn, beyond excuse; for time, sorrow, and sickness are not plausible excuses for such ravages upon a face God drew in lines ...
— The Heart of the New Thought • Ella Wheeler Wilcox

... forehead, hidden by his arm, furrowed deeply. From Muggy Ladd's initial objection to touching anything that concerned Curley, it could mean only one Curley. He, Jimmie Dale, knew this Curley by sight, and, slightly, by reputation. Curley and ...
— The Further Adventures of Jimmie Dale • Frank L. Packard

... these frightful words of the king of Sindhu, Krishna retired from that place, her face furrowed into a frown owing to the contraction of her eye-brows. But disregarding his words from supreme contempt, the slender-waisted Krishna reproving said unto the king of Sindhu, 'Speak not thus again! Art thou not ashamed? Be on thy guard!' And that lady of irreproachable character ...
— The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Bk. 3 Pt. 2 • Translated by Kisari Mohan Ganguli


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