to crash through something or a group of people with force, especially because you are moving or driving too quickly or in a careless or uncontrolled way
to finish something that takes a long time and is difficult or boring
to move through something with a lot of difficulty
A MAN chased by police died when his car ploughed through a garden wall.
Do you waste too much time ploughing through paperwork?
The car mounted the grass verge and ploughed through the safety barrier.
The car ploughed through the dark with the three of us snoring away.
This generally means ploughing through buildings to leap ahead.
Video has emerged on social media of tanks ploughing through cars with people still in them.
We had been ploughing through this mud for almost an hour now.
ploughs through
ploughing through
ploughed through
There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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