I. VERB USES
/soʊ/
( sows, sowing, sowed, sown)
1.
If you sow seeds or sow an area of land with seeds, you plant the seeds in the ground.
Sow the seed in a warm place in February/March...
Yesterday the field opposite was sown with maize.
VERB : V n , be V-ed with n
2.
If someone sows an undesirable feeling or situation, they cause it to begin and develop.
He cleverly sowed doubts into the minds of his rivals...
VERB : V n
3.
If one thing sows the seeds of another, it starts the process which leads eventually to the other thing.
Rich industrialised countries have sown the seeds of global warming.
PHRASE : V inflects , PHR n
II. NOUN USE
/saʊ/
( sows)
A sow is an adult female pig.
N-COUNT