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mown Definition

mown (mōn)

transitive verb, intransitive verb

mown Usage Examples

Object

  • grass: Site on mown grass more than 1 acre in size.
  • turf: Tests are carried out in a number of areas including close mown fine turf.
  • verge: The cost of maintaining amenity grasslands and mown roadside verges has prompted authorities to find cheaper ways of managing these areas.

Preposition: on

  • basis: The banks of ditches can be scythed or mown on a rotational basis, always leaving some uncut areas.

Preposition: once

  • year: Certain routes may only get mown once a year and others more.

Modifying Another Word

  • freshly: A rough measurement of the speed of the freshly mown lawns was 9.9 seconds on the Plummer scale.
  • neatly: To allow them to be neatly mown obstructions should not be placed on the grass area.
  • regularly: Unfortunately, the land within Johnson's Field itself has been recently, regularly mown resulting in much of the interest there being lost.
  • newly: Just by trimming the edges a lawn can appear to be newly mown.

Followed by an intransitive particle

  • down: They were mown down from the heights in narrow valleys with steep cliffs.
mown Quotes

Plures efficimus quoties metimur a vobis, semen est sanguis Christianorum. As often as we are mown down by you, the more we grow in numbers; the blood of the Christians istheseed.

—Tertullian full name  Quintus SeptimiusFlorensTertullianus