mow
verb🔊/məʊ/
🔊/məʊ/
[transitive, intransitive]Verb Forms
Phrasal Verbs| present simple I / you / we / they mow | 🔊/məʊ/ 🔊/məʊ/ |
| he / she / it mows | 🔊/məʊz/ 🔊/məʊz/ |
| past simple mowed | 🔊/məʊd/ 🔊/məʊd/ |
| past participle mown | 🔊/məʊn/ 🔊/məʊn/ |
| past participle mowed | 🔊/məʊd/ 🔊/məʊd/ |
| -ing form mowing | 🔊/ˈməʊɪŋ/ 🔊/ˈməʊɪŋ/ |
- mow (something)
to cut grass, etc. using a machine or tool with a special blade (= sharp cutting edge) or blades 刈；割；修剪 I mow the lawn every week in summer. 夏天我每周都要修剪草坪。 🔊🔊 the smell of new-mown hay 新割的草料的气味 the smell of freshly mown grass 新鲜割草的气味 The lawn needs mowing every week in summer. 夏天每周都要修剪草坪。
Oxford Collocations DictionaryMow is used with these nouns as the object:- grass
- lawn
- yard
- …
Word OriginOld English māwan, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch maaien, German mähen ‘mow’.