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fal•low

Pronunciation: (fal'ō), [key]
—adj.
1. (of land) plowed and left unseeded for a season or more; uncultivated.
2. not in use; inactive: My creative energies have lain fallow this year.

—n.
land that has undergone plowing and harrowing and has been left unseeded for one or more growing seasons.

—v.t.
to make (land) fallow for agricultural purposes.