When you plant seeds in the ground, you sow them. You can also sow things like doubts or ideas, simply by spreading them around. If your ideas (or your seeds) develop and grow, you've successfully sown them.
To sew. See
Noun
an adult female hog
Verb
introduce into an environment; "sow suspicion or beliefs"
Verb
place (seeds) in or on the ground for future growth; "She sowed sunflower seeds"
Verb
place seeds in or on (the ground); "sow the ground with sunflower seeds"
v. i.
To sew. See Sew.
n.
The female of swine, or of the hog kind.
n.
A sow bug.
n.
A channel or runner which receives the rows of molds in the
pig bed.
n.
The bar of metal which remains in such a runner.
n.
A mass of solidified metal in a furnace hearth; a salamander.
n.
A kind of covered shed, formerly used by besiegers in filling
up and passing the ditch of a besieged place, sapping and mining the
wall, or the like.
v. t.
To scatter, as seed, upon the earth; to plant by strewing;
as, to sow wheat. Also used figuratively: To spread abroad; to
propagate.
v. t.
To scatter seed upon, in, or over; to supply or stock, as
land, with seeds. Also used figuratively: To scatter over; to
besprinkle.
v. i.
To scatter seed for growth and the production of a crop; --
literally or figuratively.
Sow
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Sow
A sower went forth to sow; and when he sowed, some seeds fell by the wayside.
And sow dissension in the hearts of brothers.2.
The intellectual faculty is a goodly field, . . . and it is the worst husbandry in the world to sow it with trifles.
[He] sowed with stars the heaven.
Now morn . . . sowed the earth with orient pearl.
Sow
They that sow in tears shall reap in joi.
To sew. See
The female of swine, or of the hog kind.
To scatter, as seed, upon the earth; to plant by strewing;
To scatter seed for growth and the production of a crop; -- literally or figuratively.
Usage Examples
There's no regret. You can't regret. I mean, I've felt regret but I've also refused to allow regret to sow a seed and live in me because I don't believe it. You feel it, it's like guilt, it's like jealousy, it's like all those horrible things. You've just got to snip them and get them out, because they're no good.
Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds.
The most important seed I can sow in this life is my children, and the love and knowledge that I can bestow upon them and the help I can give them.
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Other Usage ExamplesIn addition to removing our democratically elected government, Israel wants to sow dissent among Palestinians by claiming that there is a serious leadership rivalry among us. I am compelled to dispel this notion definitively.
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind.
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