tilled

verb

past tense of till
as in cultivated
to work by plowing, sowing, and raising crops on farmers tilling the soil from sunup to sunset

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Recent Examples of tilled Ali’s father tilled tiny ancestral fields using an irrigation system developed during the Roman empire. — Literary Hub, 27 Aug. 2026 Creative soil has to be tilled every once in a while. — Peter Bogdanovich, IndieWire, 13 May 2026 Red clover can make a drought- and shade-tolerant lawn alternative, but it is more often grown as an annual winter cover crop and then tilled into the soil as green manure. — Hallie Milstein, Southern Living, 13 May 2026 Unlike parks or residential lawns, cemeteries are rarely dug up, tilled or redeveloped — which means the soil remains stable year after year. — Ryan Brennan, Charlotte Observer, 23 Apr. 2026 Solid manure from feedlots, poultry houses or composting dairy barns is spread and tilled under. — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 15 Mar. 2026 These tools – still carrying the soil from which they were tilled – represent the work of the immigrant farmworkers of all backgrounds who helped build California’s agriculture industry, which continues to feed the nation today. — Sam Vong, The Conversation, 18 Dec. 2025 The wheat fields themselves told their own story—deep brown and newly tilled in autumn, then green in spring, golden in summer. — Hannah Howard, Travel + Leisure, 22 Nov. 2025 The rest was tilled into the ground. — Jessica Winter, New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tilled
  1. cultivated
  2. planted
  3. farmed
  4. harvested
Verb
  • Vance speaks with the manipulative skill of a politician who has cultivated a rapid-fire style designed not to persuade, but to overwhelm.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 16 Oct. 2026
  • Porsche has cultivated an identity that extends well beyond the vehicles sitting in its dealerships.
    — Chris Hardesty, AJC.com, 16 Oct. 2026
Definition of cultivated
Verb
  • That same day, the complaint says Alfozan left his bag unattended in another room, and the company's security personnel opened it and found his ID, wallet and another recording device similar to the one planted in the conference room.
    — Sarah N. Lynch, CBS News, 13 Oct. 2026
  • Owned by the Tasca D’Almerita family since 1830, the area is planted with wheat, grain, olive trees, and almond trees in addition to native and international grape varieties.
    — Mike DeSimone, Robb Report, 11 Oct. 2026
Definition of planted
Verb
  • Her designs are crafted in France using leather farmed in France and tanned in Italy, and are constructed entirely without stitching, using an innovative system of folding, assembly and rivets.
    — Alex Wynne, Footwear News, 12 Oct. 2026
  • Bullseye Farms is owned by the Beeman family, who have farmed in Yolo County for more than 150 years.
    — Daniel Lempres, Sacbee.com, 22 Sep. 2026
Definition of farmed
Verb
  • Colossal researchers first harvested cells from a living gray wolf and made 20 edits to 14 genes, coding for the dire wolf’s white coat, larger size, more powerful jaws, cold weather metabolism, and more.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 14 Oct. 2026
  • In 2017, six Irish sweet chestnut trees (Castanea sativa) were harvested from Cappoquin Estate in the southern part of Ireland.
    — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 12 Oct. 2026
Definition of harvested

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“Tilled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tilled. Accessed 20 Oct. 2026.

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