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Definition of farrow verb from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

farrow

verb
 
/ˈfærəʊ/
 
/ˈfærəʊ/
 [intransitive]
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present simple I / you / we / they farrow
 
/ˈfærəʊ/
 
/ˈfærəʊ/
he / she / it farrows
 
/ˈfærəʊz/
 
/ˈfærəʊz/
past simple farrowed
 
/ˈfærəʊd/
 
/ˈfærəʊd/
past participle farrowed
 
/ˈfærəʊd/
 
/ˈfærəʊd/
-ing form farrowing
 
/ˈfærəʊɪŋ/
 
/ˈfærəʊɪŋ/
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  1. (of a female pig) to give birthTopics Animalsc2
    Word OriginOld English fearh, færh ‘young pig’, of West Germanic origin, from an Indo-European root shared by Greek porkos and Latin porcus ‘pig’.
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