mows

Shears the lawn

Mows is the third-person singular of mow, meaning to cut grass or grain: He mows the lawn every Saturday.

A mow (rhyming with "cow") is also a stack of hay or grain, or the part of a barn where such stacks are stored—a usage now largely rural and old-fashioned.

haymaking

scythe

Manual crop-cutting implement

sickleCurved hand-held harvesting blade
hayDried feed crop
swathWide strip or area

windrow · tedding · baling · alfalfa · clover · timothy · pasture · fodder · silage · hayfield

lawn

grass

Narrow-leaved ground cover

yardLinear measure or grounds
turfGrass-covered earth surface
clippingsPieces cut off

landscaping · groundskeeping · edging · fescue · sod · sprinkler · irrigation · fertilizer · weedwhacker · dethatching

harvest

reaper

One who gathers crops

combineMerge, or harvesting machine
wheatCereal crop for flour
barleyGrain for malt

grain · crop · threshing · swathe · stubble · yield · autumn · field · acreage · farmland

figurative

destroys

Causes complete ruin

decimatesDestroys most of
slaughtersKills in large numbers
cuts downReduces or fells

annihilates · massacres · overwhelms · dominates · plows through · sweeps · flattens · levels · defeats · vanquishes

Opposites

lawn/vegetation care action

mowssows

Plants or she-pigs

plants · seeds · grows · cultivates · germinates

action vs. inaction

mowsneglects

Fails to care for

ignores · abandons

Phrases

mow downKill many swiftly
lawn mowerGrass-cutting machine
mowing the lawn
mowed down
lawn mowingTrimming a yard's grass
mowing lawnsTrimming yard grass short

Family

mow, mower, mowing, mowed, lawnmower, mowers, mown

Familiarity: Top 20,000
Profile: Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G