1 a long narrow cut in the ground, especially one made by a PLOUGH for planting seeds in:
dark ploughed earth, with white chalk in the furrows * Truck wheels had dug furrows in the track.
2 a deep line in the skin of the face:
Suddenly he looked tired and there were deep furrows in his brow.
IDIOMS see PLOUGHv.
Part of speech: verb
1 [VN] to make a furrow in the earth:
furrowed fields
2 [V, VN] (written) if your BROWS or EYEBROWS furrow or are furrowed, you pull them together, usually because you are worried, and so produce lines on your face
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